Sentences with phrase «vostok research station»

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

The coldest temperature on Earth was recorded in Antarctica in 1983, when the outside air hit minus 129 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89 degrees Celsius) at Vostok Research Station, which sits at the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, about 800 miles (1,300 km) from the Geographic South Pole.

In 1958, a Russian airplane navigator named Robinson was making his landing approach at the newly opened Vostok research station when he noticed a large, flat, oval depression «with gentle shores» on the glacier surface.

Even by Antarctic standards, the Lake Vostok research station is inhospitable.

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He heard that the Soviets had an ambitious drilling program at Vostok Station, the most isolated research site on the continent.

What will be presented in this article is an in depth look at data from research done at the Vostok station in the Antarctic.