Sentences with phrase «sites vostok»
Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.
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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.
Other scientists are interested in the frigid surface above Vostok, which should serve as an ideal test site for autonomous robots designed to drill on Europa and search for hidden life.
He heard that the Soviets had an ambitious drilling program at Vostok Station, the most isolated research site on the continent.
In the websites from the Siple and Vostok sites you can find that it takes 60 - 80 meters for the snow (fern) to be compressed to form ice which has bubbles trapped.
A site that show the astronomical cycles, solar insolation, CO2, CH4 and temperature record is the Vostok Viewer: