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.
Not exact matches
But a
lake as deeply
buried as Vostok would be entirely dark, so any life there would have to use some
other energy source.
Priscu isn't expecting a disaster, but if there is one, he says it could set back plans by U.S. scientists — himself included — and British scientists, to drill into two
other buried Antarctic
lakes in the coming years.
Other key works by Robert Smithson include: Ithaca Mirror Trail (1969, Tate Collection, London); Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1 - 9)(1969, Guggenheim Museum, New York); Partially
Buried Woodshed (1970, print at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC); Broken Circle (1971, Spiral Hill, Emmen, The Netherlands); and Amarillo Ramp (1973, Tecovas
Lake, Amarillo, Texas).
Clues
buried in
lake beds are helping clarify what wiped out these and
other big North American mammals.
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.