Sentences with phrase «vostok lies»
Like the inferred lakes on Europa, Vostok lies some two miles under a shell of surface ice and remains liquid due to the crushing pressure of that overlying mass.
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The icy lake, called Lake Vostok, lies under Russia's Vostok Station in central Antarctica.
He pointed to an ice core taken from East Antarctica's Lake Vostok, which lies underneath the ice sheet.
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.
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.
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.
It only lies about half a mile beneath the surface, compared to Lake Vostok's two - mile depth.
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.
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.