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Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, romanized: ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica 's 675 known [3] subglacial lakes. Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level.
9 lip 2013 · Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a giant body of water buried beneath about 4000 meters of ice, has had a surge of publicity in recent years. Subglacial lakes were suspected to exist beneath the continent's ice for decades.
16 lut 2012 · As a team reaches Antarctica's Lake Vostok, what's driving efforts to explore the White Continent's hidden lakes?
LAKE VOSTOK. The largest subglacial Lake Vostok, the fifth largest freshwater body of water in the world by volume, lies beneath the ice sheet in the area of the Vostok station. The lake is unique, since it has been isolated from the Earth's surface for tens of millions of years.
28 sty 2011 · A scientist who is part of a team drilling through 4,000m of ice to get to the ancient waters of Antarctica's subglacial Lake Vostok describes life on the edge of the Earth.
Lake Vostok is well known for being the largest subglacial lake discovered. Aside from this, what makes it intriguing is the possibility of obtaining evidence of life existing within its...
Antarctica’s Lake Vostok, located 4 miles beneath the ice and heated by geothermal activity, has spread quickly through the news in recent days. For an estimated 20 million years this remote body of water remained preserved from outside contact.
