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of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for 15 to 25 million years. Because Lake Vostok may contain an environment sealed off below the ice for millions of years, the conditions could resemble those of ice-covered oceans hypothesized to exist on Jupiter's moon Europa, and Saturn's moon Enceladus.

On 5 February 2012, a team of Russian scientists completed the

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