Showing posts with label Lake Vostok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Vostok. Show all posts

Saturday, March 09, 2013

New Life Found in Antarctic Lake!

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New Life Life Found in Antarctic Lake!

‘Unclassified’ Life Found in Antarctic Lake – Researcher

en.rian.ru
3-7-13

     MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) – A preliminary examination of water samples from the ancient subglacial Lake Vostok near the South Pole indicated that its inhabitants are not to be found anywhere else on Earth, a member of the research team told RIA Novosti.

The species of bacteria, whose traces were found in probes of water from Lake Vostok, do not belong to any of the 40-plus known subkingdoms of bacteria, said Sergei Bulat, a researcher at the Laboratory of Eukaryote Genetics at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute.

“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and 'unclassified' life,” Bulat said. . . .

Monday, January 14, 2013

Russian Researchers Reach Back 20 Million Years & Retrieve First Samples From Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake


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Lake Vostok (Ice Graphic)

By Rianovosti
1-14-13

     ST. PETERSBURG, January 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russian researchers obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica during drilling operations on Thursday, Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported.

In February 2012, after decades of drilling, Russian scientists finally managed to penetrate Antarctica’s ice sheet at a depth of some 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) to reveal the secrets of Lake Vostok, which had been sealed there for the past 20 million years.

Explorers hope Vostok, which is the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes and also one of the largest lakes in the world, could reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age.

Scientists have previously examined water samples received when they drilled deep into the lake back in 2012, but they were not sure these were samples of lake water rather than water inside the glacier above the lake. So in order to receive ice right from the lake, researchers drilled into the glacier once again in January 2013.

“The first core of transparent lake ice, 2 meters long, was obtained on January 10 at a depth of 3,406 meters. Inside it was a vertical channel filled with white bubble-rich ice,” the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, said in a statement.

The institute said the composition and origin of the new core are being determined. . . .

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

VIDEO | Lake Vostok Mystery: Alien life, Global Warming & Re-Emergence of Secret Nazi Base Rumor

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Lake Vostok Drilling Operation

By rt.com
2-7-2012

     Scientists, environmentalists and even World War II historians have reacted with a mixture of excitement and concern to news that Russian geologists have drilled through to a huge subterranean lake in Antarctica, some 20 million years old.

It has taken more than 30 years to work through 3,700 meters of thick ice – drilling in temperatures as low as minus 80 centigrade.

But it will have been worth it, if even half the claims being made about the lake are true. . . .