The Polar Geophysics Group is a team of research scientists, engineers, students, and research staff in the Marine Geology and Geophysics Division at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Russian scientists this week finished penetrating more than two miles through the Antarctic ice sheet to Lake Vostok, a huge freshwater lake that has been buried under the ice for millions of years. The feat has taken two decades to accomplish, but the scientists won’t know what they’ve found until next year — the team quickly exited the research station, located in the middle of the continent 800 miles from the South Pole, to avoid increasingly harsh polar conditions.
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