An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life
"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...
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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's ice
Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...
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Antarctica’s Lake Vostok keeps its secret sealed for another year
The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at Antarctica's Lake Vostok stopped on Feb. 5 at a depth of 3,720.47 meters. The operation had to be halted so that the ...
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Digging for the Secrets Beneath Antarctica
Other scientists had tried to delve into Antarctica’s hidden realm ... And a Russian project aimed at Lake Vostok retrieved samples bathed in kerosene from the drilling process ...
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Protecting subglacial environments in Antarctica
Lake Vostok is a deep freshwater lake beneath the ice of central East Antarctica; it is one of the five largest lakes on Earth. Siegert and his colleagues, including Professor Martyn Tranter in ...
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New facilities opened at a Russian base in Antarctica
Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI) said in a statement: ”A new winter complex has been put into operation at ...