has lake vostok been penetrated?
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Update: Russian scientists have now confirmed that they have indeed breached Lake Vostok. It is the first time one of Antarctica's subglacial lakes has been penetrated. According to an official statement [in Russian], the drill entered the lake at 20.25 Moscow time on 5 February.
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A U.S. government report warns that hackers have been targeting power facilities in the US and other countries. ... Firms operating nuclear power plants and other energy facilities in the US have been under attack by hackers in recent months, according to a report by The New York Times.
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Even though East Antarctica contains the largest potential source of sea level rise, it is West Antarctica that currently experiences a net outflow of ice, causing sea levels to rise. Using different satellites from 1992 to 2017 shows melt is increasing significantly over this period.
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On 18 August 1976, the Soviet Luna 24 probe landed at Mare Crisium, took samples from the depths of 118, 143, and 184 cm of the lunar regolith, and then took them to Earth. In February 1978, it was published that laboratory analysis of these samples shown they contained 0.1% water by mass.
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About the Bay of Fundy. ... Scoured by glaciers one million years ago, and filled by a rising water level in the world oceans, the gigantic ebb and flow of saltwater in the Bay of Fundy has been in motion for at least the last 6,000 years, and is unrivaled in the world.
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Humans have drilled over 12 kilometers (7.67 miles) in the Sakhalin-I. In terms of depth below the surface, the Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 retains the world record at 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth.
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A strong explosive eruption at Okmok began abruptly at 1143 on 12 July after about an hour of rapidly escalating earthquake activity. Ash and gas from the initial explosions reached at least 15 km (50,000 ft) a.s.l on 12 July and drifted as a large cloud S and E above the North Pacific.
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Though a series of electric barriers are operated within the system to deter the transfer of invasive species between the watersheds, in 2009 Asian carp eDNA (biological traces of the existence of a species) was found on the Lake Michigan side of the barriers and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service confirmed in 2015 that ...
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Okanagan Lake has frozen over completely at least 8 times since 1907. ... The lake froze two winters in a row in 1949 and 1950.
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1997, 1999). Ice cores are unique with their entrapped air inclusions enabling direct records of past changes in atmospheric trace-gas composition. Preliminary data indicate the Vostok ice-core record extends through four climate cycles, with ice slightly older than 400 kyr (Petit et al.
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Kovacs said smelt numbers in Lake Superior appear to be improving, with anglers catching plenty of them while ice fishing on bays and finding more of them in the stomachs of larger fish. But, so far, there have been no historical smelt runs.
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Exxon Valdez oil spill – Twenty five years ago on March 24, more than 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Capt. Joseph Hazelwood ran the Exxon Valdez into Bligh Reef.
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The U.S. Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Benbrook Lake at the rate of 1,200 cubic feet per second. But if they release too much too fast, the concern is it'll only cause more flooding downstream.
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It survived due to its sturdy construction. Striations on the wall of the temple, that could have formed when the glacier moved around the structure, further support the theory. It is believed that large amounts of water flowed down from the Chorabari lake formed by the melt of the glacier.
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Coastlines in Northern Ontario in Lake Superior Provincial Park, and the areas around Sault Ste. Marie, have seen enormous ice caves form in recent years.
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Lake Norman was 1 foot below its full capacity and 4.6 feet above its target Monday. ... More than 100 homes were damaged by flooding last June when Mountain Island Lake reached 7 feet above full pond after Duke opened the floodgates for the first time ever at its Cowans Ford Dam to release water from Lake Norman.
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Vostok models such as the Amphibia and Komandirskie are good military-grade timepieces. They are very tough, plus, they use 19800 BPH 31 and 32 mechanisms, which are jewel self-winding and shock-resistant. They can operate without requiring maintenance for as long as 10 years – or longer if you use them carefully.