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Drilling the Ice from the Past to the Future
Published on Jul 05, 20125621 Views
On the 5th of February 2012 the hardened hands of drill masters turned a new page of the chronicle of the Antarctic exploration. In the heart of the snow desert at Russian Vostok Station, the head of
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Drilling the Ice from the Past to the Future00:00
Fortune favors the brave (1)02:39
Fortune favors the brave (3)03:25
Russian Antarctic stations04:04
Vostok06:43
Vostok Station07:46
1970: beginning of the deep drilling08:32
Deep ice drilling to study the remote past08:57
“Cornucopia of paleoclimatic data” (1)11:02
“Cornucopia of paleoclimatic data” (2)12:40
Lake Vostok13:12
Can melt-water exist under deeply frozen Antarctic glacier?13:52
Byrd Station, 2164 m (29 January 1968)15:10
Andrey Kapitsa (1931-2011)16:22
Gordon de Q. Robin, 1970s - Ridley et al., 199317:14
Lake Vostok: The 5th largest lake in the world! (1)18:45
Lake Vostok: The 5th largest lake in the world! (2)18:51
Aquatic environments beneath the Antarctic ice sheet19:19
Subglacial river20:09
Dry Valleys 20:22
Why Lake Vostok?20:47
From 5G-1 to 5G-222:12
What do we know about the Lake Vostok?23:39
2 January – 5 February 201225:22
Now is time for some pictures25:38
Bird Observation (1)25:51
Bird Observation (2)26:49
Hole 5G 26:55
"working moment"27:24
Empty drill28:22
A sad New Year's Party28:50
Not all were sad29:02
Ice core (1)29:07
Ice core (2)29:44
Ice core (3)30:17
Ice core (4)30:20
Visitors (1)30:48
Visitors (2)31:21
Gifts 31:28
Probabillity Graph31:39
Graph32:33
Lake water (1)33:47
Lake water (2)34:44
A drill (1)34:58
A drill (2)35:20
Ice Particles35:26
Ice core (5)35:38
Ice core (6)36:13
Ice core (7)36:37
Ice core (8)36:44
Ice core (9)36:53
Ice core (10)37:03
Ice cores 37:40
The wall38:25
Borehole 5G-238:59
Borehole 5G-2 - What next?39:03
“Teams set for first taste of Antarctic lakes”, Nature, 201039:30
“Second penetration” to LV: direct measurements and water sampling40:25
Thank you!40:55