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Russian Drill Team Close to Penetrating Lake Vostok
31.01.2012
A Russian drilling team is close to penetrating subglacial Lake Vostok, located more than three and a half kilometers deep in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, not far from the Russian Vostok Station at the Magnetic South Pole. After two decades of drilling through several kilometres of ice, the team is…
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Engineering Team for Lake Ellsworth Drilling Project Completes Deep-Field Expedition
17.01.2012
Four engineers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have returned to the UK after completing a journey to one of the harshest parts of Antarctica to put in place equipment and supplies for the Lake Ellsworth Subglacial Lake drilling project, which will explore an ancient lake buried 3 km deep…
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Antarctica’s Lake Vostok on Cusp of Revealing Its Secrets
11.01.2011
For the last 14 million years, Lake Vostok, which lies beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, has been shielded from the changes occurring elsewhere in Antarctica and on Earth by a four-kilometre thick layer of ice. This unique environment has sparked biologists’ and other scientists’ curiosity, as any life form…
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One Step Closer to First Exploration of Sub-Glacial Lake Ellsworth
04.06.2010
In a paper published in the Geophysical Research Letters, scientists have revealed that they have located the optimal drilling site for the exploration of Antarctic sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, which would be a major first. Although no one has ever drilled into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake, microbiologists and paleoclimatologists believe that…
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International Team to Explore Antarctic Sublglacial Lake Ellsworth
04.03.2009
An international team of scientists led by British researchers has beengiven approval to explore Lake Ellsworth, a subglacial lake hidden deepbeneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, during the 2012-2013 Antarcticwinter season. Buried under 3 km of ice sheet, Lake Ellsworth has beenisolated from the outside world for hundreds of thousands…
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Lake Vostok Life to Be Studied
16.01.2007
U.S. researchers from University of California, Riverside will analyze microorganisms from Lake Vostok in Antarctica to determine how life adapts to extremely harsh environments.
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Lake Vostok Has Company
06.02.2006
At 14,000 square kilometres, Lake Vostok is by far the largest subglacial lake in the world but scientists have identified more than 145 other lakes under the ice. The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has documented for the first time the size, depth and origin of Vostok's two largest neighbors. The two…
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Scientists Fear Russian Drilling Will Pollute Lake Vostok
17.11.2005
A Russian team of scientists are determined to be the first to drill into Lake Vostok which lies three kilometers beneath the East Antarctic ice cap and has been isolated from the atmosphere for millions of years. However, a group of American and other international scientists contends that the Russian…
