Posts tagged antarctica
Russia Finds ‘New Bacteria’ in Antarctic Lake
Yikes! Have these guys not watched The X-Files?!
Russians Nab First Sample of Lake Vostok
Russian drilling operations at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, have succeeded in collecting a long-sought core sample of water frozen into the borehole from the glacier-covered, 20 million-year-old lake they cracked into last year. Read more…
(This is pure-squeezed awesomejuice.)
Future of Antartica — Greener and More Robots
The future of Antarctica is greener, cheaper and will probably involve more sharing.
Oh, and more robots.
Those are some of the likely recommendations of a blue ribbon panel looking at how the United States will conduct science on the frozen continent during the next two decades.
The U.S. spends about $380 million each year to support more than 1,200 scientists and support personnel in Antarctica. The last time officials did this big a review, they decided to build a new base at the South Pole and a one-square kilometer neutrino observatory under the ice cap.
Photo: A penguin on Snow Island, Antarctica. Corbis
