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Mission called off for 2012

In the early hours of Christmas Day (Tuesday 25 December 2012) Professor Martin Siegert, Principal Investigator of the Subglacial Lake Ellsworth experiment, confirmed that the mission to drill through 3 km of solid ice into a buried lake to search for life forms in the water and clues to past climate in the lake-bed sediments was called off for this field season.  read more

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