Sentences with phrase «vostok research»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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

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

My role at the meeting was mainly to hold up his one chart (of the Vostok ice core record, that then unfolded to the much higher projected CO2 levels — a chart the USGCRP [U.S. Global Change Research Office] office that I led at the time had helped the OSTP [White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] to get made for him).

There is the research that reports that Vostok ice cores, going back 800,000 years, clearly shows that temperature rises before a parallel rise of CO2 800-1200 years later.

In 2008, research on Antarctic Vostok and EPICA Dome C ice cores revealed that methane clathrates were also present in deep Antarctic ice cores and record a history of atmospheric methane concentrations, dating to 800,000 years ago.