News tagged with antarctic lake
Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake
A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Antarctic lake home to diverse community of viruses
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of the genetic structure of viruses in an Antarctic lake has revealed an astonishing genetic richness in the large number of viral families discovered.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Scientists drill two miles down to ancient Lake Vostok
(PhysOrg.com) -- Russian scientists last week finished penetrating more than two miles through the Antarctic ice sheet to Lake Vostok, a huge freshwater lake that has been buried under the ice for millions ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Engineering team heads to Antarctica to explore hidden lake
Next week a British engineering team heads off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice. This extraordinary ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Engineering team completes ambitious Antarctic expedition in the 'deep-field'
A team of four British engineers has returned to the UK after completing a gruelling journey to one of the most remote and hostile locations on the planet to put in place equipment and supplies for an ambitious project later ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission
A NASA robot tested last winter in an icy Wisconsin lake will complete a monthlong underwater mission in Antarctica on Thursday, having successfully explored dark, deep waters frozen off from the outside world tens of thousands ...
Dec 26, 2008 |
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Exploring Beneath Antarctic Ice
The NASA-funded ENDURANCE project has completed its second field season robotically exploring the waters of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica. Insight gained by the expedition will help scientists prepare ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Three scientific expeditions seek treasure under the ice in the Frozen Continent
In a modern iteration of the great age of Antarctic exploration of the 19th and 20th centuries, three teams of scientists are rushing to reach not the South Pole like Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Final frontier: Mission to explore buried ancient Antarctic lake given green light
An international team of scientists led by the UK has been given the go-ahead to explore one of the planet's last great frontiers - an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Buried under ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Life in an Antarctic lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis geologists have been using laser scanning and underwater video to capture images of life in an ice-covered Antarctic lake.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Laser technique has implications for detecting microbial life forms in Martian ice
An innovative technique called L.I.F.E. imaging used successfully to detect bacteria in frozen Antarctic lakes could have exciting implications for demonstrating signs of life in the polar regions of Mars, according to an ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2009 |
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