Sentences with phrase «buried ice lake»

A fresh hypothesis suggests that the chaotic terrain in and around Aram Chaos resulted when a buried ice lake trapped in the ancient impact crater suddenly collapsed.

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A team drills thousands of feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to reach a lake buried for millennia.

Plant and animal DNA buried under two Canadian lakes squashes the idea that the first Americans travelled through an ice - free corridor that extended from Alaska to Montana.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.

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 shLake Vostok is the world's seventh - largest freshwater lake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice shlake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Graduate student Grace Barcheck, from the University of California in Santa Cruz, buries a seismic sensor in the ice sheet above Subglacial Lake Whillans.

In the middle of Lake Huron, however, such lanes could have been buried when lake water levels rose rapidly about 7,500 years ago, after the end of the last ice Lake Huron, however, such lanes could have been buried when lake water levels rose rapidly about 7,500 years ago, after the end of the last ice lake water levels rose rapidly about 7,500 years ago, after the end of the last ice age.

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.

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 Lake Vostok — a pristine freshwater lake buried beneath 2.5 miles (3.7 km) of solid lake buried beneath 2.5 miles (3.7 km) of solid ice.

While a team of Russian scientists were drilling ice core samples from their Vostok base in Antarctica, new satellite imagery revealed the outline of a lake the size of New Jersey buried two miles underneath the ice.

The scientists realized that this odd layer of ice was actually from the roof of an enormous lake, buried directly beneath them.

Russian scientists are on the verge of punching a hole into a vast Antarctic lake that's buried under more than two miles of ice.

New types of bacteria have been found in one of the most alien environments on Earth: a subglacial lake buried beneath almost a thousand feet of ice.

How could Antarctica have one or, more surprisingly, almost 400 unfrozen lakes buried under snow and ice — a «preposterous» 18 discovery made in the 1990s?

Researchers working in the Canadian high north have discovered two super-salty lakes buried deep beneath the Arctic ice.

In either case, as the ice grew, these microbes would have remained alive even as the sediment and lake were buried under ice.

Shallower than other subglacial lakes, Whillans provided researchers with a decent chance for success due to its relative accessibility compared to other lakes buried beneath miles of ice.

A British engineering team went to Antarctica this October for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice, and attempt to uncover clues about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and about the Earth's past climate.

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

Scientists from several nations are working together to launch a flagship program to explore a major mountain range buried by a large continental ice sheet and bounded by numerous subglacial lakes.