Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI) said in a statement: ”A new winter complex has been put into operation at ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

Lake Vostok is roughly 34 million years old ... better understanding how water flows under the thick ice of Antarctica. And perhaps, even faraway moons.

The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at Antarctica's Lake Vostok stopped on Feb. 5 at a depth of 3,720.47 meters. The operation had to be halted so that the ...

Then came the simple announcement that shattered forever man’s ancient isolation on earth: “The world’s first spaceship, Vostok [East], with a man on board, has been launched on April 12 in ...

Other scientists had tried to delve into Antarctica’s hidden realm ... And a Russian project aimed at Lake Vostok retrieved samples bathed in kerosene from the drilling process ...

Current local time in Vostok (Antarctica/Vostok timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/Vostok time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

Two Russian ships: the Vostok and the Mirny are claimed by some ... with some facts about the the coldest place on Earth. Antarctica was first sighted by humans just 200 years ago.

To commemorate both of these historic flights, the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules. “The first time I looked at the models,” says Neufeld ...

More than 100 years ago explorers raced to discover the South Pole Now scientists are racing to discover the secret subterranean world of rivers and lakes buried miles beneath it In 1974 ...