Buried beneath nearly two miles of Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok is one of the most isolated places on Earth – a hidden, ancient ...
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 ...
Why it's incredible: The lake is one of the largest on Earth, but it lies beneath several miles of ice. Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake ...
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, ...