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Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features.../17157566.html

For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica’s frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.

“There’s only a bit left to go,” Alexei Turkeyev, chief of the Russian polar Vostok Station, told Reuters by satellite phone. His team has drilled for weeks in a race to reach the lake, 3,750 metres (12,000 ft) beneath the polar ice cap, before the end of the brief Antarctic summer.

This is pretty interesting, however what will happen once it's breached?