Sentences with phrase «vostok station»

The outstanding record was extracted by a French - Soviet team at the Soviets» Vostok Station in Antarctica.

Interestingly, the CO 2 levels in the Vostok Station record got as low as 180 parts per million (ppm) in the cold periods and reached 280 in the warm periods, but never higher.

A very good example of Antarctic monitoring of global warming is an ice core two kilometres long and equivalent to 150,000 - year record of warmth, cold and warmth, that a French - Soviet drilling team at Vostok Station in central Antarctica produced in 1985.

According to the World Meteorological Organization, the coldest place on Earth is Vostok Station in Antarctica, where it reached minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C) on July 21, 1983.

BEFORE half a million years ago, no snow accumulated, because as you can see, the Vostok Station is going to hit rock bottom.

So the Russians at Vostok Station could begin to take readings?

«The coldest surface air temperature ever measured on Earth was at the Vostok Station in 1983, a reading of T = -89.2 C (or 184K), which is reasonably close to CO2 snow deposition temperature of 133K (1 bar)...»

The coldest surface air temperature ever measured on Earth was at the Vostok Station in 1983, a reading of T = -89.2 C (or 184K), which is reasonably close to CO2 snow deposition temperature of 133K (1 bar) or 152K (10 bars).

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

For example, if you examine the ice core data, say from Vostok station http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/ you may find many episodes with «bizzare» behavior.

They will do this through the creation of two climate graphs - one for Prudhoe Bay in Northern Alaska, and one for Vostok Station, Antarctica - the coldest place on Earth.

Meanwhile, water refreezes at the other end, beneath Vostok Station.

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

Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

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

The Soviets chose the site for Vostok Station because the ice there is thicker than anywhere else in the world — 12,280 feet — and they needed thick ice.

It is possible that what is happening at the Vostok station today is the beginning of our next chapter in the search for life in the universe.

Pluto spends its time far from the sun, where temperatures hover around minus 391 degrees Fahrenheit; Ceres is much closer and can heat up to minus 37 F (warmer than summers at Antarctica's Vostok station).

VOSTOK Station in Antarctica currently holds the crown for the coldest place on the planet.

Not exact matches

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

Drilling equipment and fluid that is dumped down the borehole to keep it open may introduce microbial contaminants into the waters of the lake under the drill station (also called Vostok), making it impossible for scientists to know what was there naturally.

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.

(The more well - known Vostok polar station is located on the same plateau at a similar elevation.)

Over East Antarctica, most of the reconstructions and the station data are in agreement, showing near - zero trends for coastal East Antarctica and some positive trends inland, around Vostok and the South Pole.

The good data from 1958 at the Antarctica stations of Amundsen - Scott, Vostok, Halley and Davis proves that without doubt.

Studies of the ice core retrieved by Russia's Vostok Antarctic station show that this is what has been happening on earth for at least the last 400,000 years.

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.

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