Sentences with phrase «lake vostok»

The coldest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was -128.6 °F at the Vostok Research Station, Lake Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.

Lying beneath more than two miles of Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok may be the best - known and largest subglacial lake in the world, but it is not alone down there.

Deep in the Antarctic interior, buried under thousands of meters (more than two miles) of ice, lies Lake Vostok, the world's largest subglacial lake.

So Subglacial Lake Vostok, and the beds of glaciers generally, are intensely interesting from the standpoint of the search for extraterrestrial life.

The ICESat bias corrections used by the Zwally team were appropriate for measuring sea ice, but not for measuring high altitude land - base ice sheets like found in Antarctica (the values returned for Lake Vostok alone were so unphysical that they should have made the entire study DOA) 2.

Vostok Data The Vostok ice core sample was obtained by drilling down into the ice above Lake Vostok to a depth of 3623m.

New 3D bathymetry and sediment distribution in Lake Vostok: implication for pre-glacial origin and numerical modeling of the internal processes within the lake

It only lies about half a mile beneath the surface, compared to Lake Vostok's two - mile depth.

To prepare for missions to Mars, NASA tests out its tech in extreme locales like Death Valley, Calif., and Lake Vostok in Antarctica,...

Traces of life in Lake Vostok reinforces both this conclusion and a recent flood.

17) Besides, Lake Vostok is permanently dark; without photosynthesis, what would those animals eat?

With no light reaching it, Lake Vostok probably contains very little food.

Rogers also looked at DNA sequences that other scientists had found on the drilling equipment and drilling fluid used at Lake Vostok.

The largest subglacial lake, Lake Vostok, lies beneath the coldest place on the planet, where the temperature at the surface often falls below minus 60 degrees Celsius.

His samples came from two holes that were drilled into the ice above Lake Vostok.

In February 2012, a team of Russian researchers for the first time drilled all of the way into Lake Vostok.

The DNA that Rogers» group found probably did not come from animals that lived in Lake Vostok before it was covered in ice.

And when it's over, the claim of animals in Lake Vostok may prove to have been a mistake.

Even if contamination is not the source of DNA from unexpected species, it is still possible that animals or algae do not currently live in Lake Vostok.

Instead, its bottommost layer, just above Lake Vostok, is lake water frozen onto the underside of the ice sheet.

Samples of microorganisms collected in Lake Vostok are currently being studied, and Christner and Achberger are looking to understand the organisms, environment below the ice and how the lake runoff can affect diversity of the surrounding ecosystem.

He and his research team drilled through thousands of feet of ice to study microorganisms living in the sub-glacial Lake Vostok.

The Russians, at Lake Vostok, and the British, at Lake Ellsworth, may have samples by 2012.

In among the Gamburtsev Mountains lies another enigmatic feature of the Antarctic: Lake Vostok — a pristine freshwater lake buried beneath 2.5 miles (3.7 km) of solid ice.

Amazingly, under all that ice lies a lake of liquid water, called Lake Vostok, that is 700 meters deep and as big in area as Lake Ontario.

The centennial coincides with an expected new landmark: This week, a Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok in the center of the Antarctic continent is likely to break through the ice to water.

The team found traces of hot - spring dwelling bacterial DNA in ice above Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a buried body of water as large as Lake Ontario.

Scientists aren't sure where the water in Lake Vostok comes from — or how warm it might be.

Nestled in a rocky pocket under 4 kilometers of glacial ice, Lake Vostok's waters have never been sampled.

Warmth from the Earth has melted about 2000 cubic kilometers of water, making Lake Vostok by far the largest of more than 70 known lakes within the Antarctic ice.

If they can obtain the satellite, Polar Broadband Systems hopes to have it in place by the next Antarctic summer — in time for Russian scientists» return to Lake Vostok to collect the first sample of water from an Antarctic subglacial lake.

He pointed to an ice core taken from East Antarctica's Lake Vostok, which lies underneath the ice sheet.

The icy lake, called Lake Vostok, lies under Russia's Vostok Station in central Antarctica.

The research is good news for those who long to find isolated ecosystems in Lake Vostok's dark waters, says glaciologist Charles Bentley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The lakes, called 90 ° E and Sovetskaya, are each roughly the area of Lake Okeechobee in Florida; in Antarctica, only Lake Vostok is larger.

This dirty ice represented muddy water from Lake Vostok that had frozen back onto the bottom of the ice sheet.

The Lake Vostok team found evidence that heat - loving bacteria may live in the bedrock surrounding that lake.

At roughly 12 kilometers long by 3 kilometers wide, with a depth of around 150 meters, it is but a puddle compared with the vast Lake Vostok.

In February, a Russian team penetrated Lake Vostok — the largest and deepest Antarctic lake — completing a project that was launched more than 20 years ago (see Nature 482, 287; 2012).

Apparently the drillers had hit meltwater from the top of Lake Vostok that had slowly refrozen and accreted onto the bottom of the overlying glacial ice sheet.

John C. Priscu, a professor of land resources and environmental sciences at Montana State University who discovered microorganisms thriving in permanently frozen surface lakes in Antarctica at temperatures as low as — 10 degrees Fahrenheit, wants to study microbes in Lake Vostok to learn if they are viable or unique, or both.

Since the discovery of Lake Vostok and the first explorations of its microbiology, international meetings have been held regularly so scientists can share information and make plans.

As yet, no one has touched the waters of a subglacial lake with so much as a drill bit, but a Russian group that has been coring ice over Lake Vostok to get ancient climate records is coming close.

The discovery builds on research done by Russian researchers at Lake Vostok, another Antarctic subglacial lake.

Ground - penetrating radar later confirmed these suggestions, and Lake Vostok, with its 1,300 cubic miles of liquid water, was revealed some two and a half miles below the ice.

His Russian scientific team had finally accomplished its elusive goal: retrieving the purest sample yet from Lake Vostok, an Antarctic body of water that has likely been locked beneath thousands of feet of ice for up to 15 million years.

Buried under a sheet of ice 2.5 miles thick, Lake Vostok is the world's seventh - largest freshwater lake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

On the heels of a Russian drilling effort that reached Lake Vostok, British and American teams also aim to penetrate ancient subglacial lakes

The same news report went on to discuss an old theory that Nazis built a secret base at Lake Vostok in the 1930s, and that German submarines brought Hitler and Eva Braun's remains to Antarctica for cloning purposes following the German surrender in World War II.

If the Russians have indeed reached Lake Vostok this week, it could be a close contest to see who will be first to test whether life can go on in the cold darkness beneath Antarctica's ice.