Beneath the flattest, most featureless stretch of the East Antarctic ice sheet lies a body of liquid water roughly the size ...
Selected images from the Lake Vostok B-roll package. NSF-supported scientists, including John Priscu of Montana State University, dressed in cold-weather clothing, examine a piece of ice core taken ...
A lake nearly the size of Lake Ontario lies in complete darkness beneath East Antarctica. Its water remains liquid under an ice sheet measured in miles, cut off from direct contact with the atmosphere ...
In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over ...