{"id":3521,"date":"2011-12-22T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2012-02-10T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:18:11","slug":"top-stories-baghdad-bombings-kill-at-least-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Russia Reaches Lake Vostok Under Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic <span id=\"lw_1328709130_4\">freshwater lake<\/span> in <span id=\"lw_1328709130_2\">Antarctica<\/span> that had been hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years,  potentially holding life from the distant past and a clue to the search  for life on other planets.\u00a0 Scientists hope to find primeval bacteria that could expand the human  knowledge of the origins of life.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Vostok, about 2.4 miles beneath the surface, is  the largest in a web of nearly 400 known sub-glacial lakes in Antarctica\u00a0 The lake is 250 160 miles long and 30 miles across at its widest point, similar in area to Lake Ontario.\u00a0 Scientists believe that microbial life may exist in the dark depths of  the lake despite high pressure and constant cold \u2014 conditions similar to  those expected to be found under ice crust on Mars, Jupiter&#8217;s moon  Europa, and Saturn&#8217;s moon, Enceladus.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/russia-reaches-lake-under-antarctica-125648612.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/russia-reaches-lake-under-antarctica-125648612.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica that had been hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years, potentially holding life from the distant past and a clue to the search for life on other planets.\u00a0 Scientists hope to find primeval bacteria that could expand the human knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":133,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}