Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok, after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia.
This is awesome. Imagine bein at the bottom of that shaft.. scraping ice for prehistoric plankton samples.. alone.. at night...oldies playing on the cheap , wired radio...
ReplyDeletei wonder id anyones 'done it' at the bottom of that shaft...