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SPACE MAPPING MISSION OF ANTARCTICA ABORTED DUE TO NSA OVER-RIDE
In a brief announcment today, NASA and the JPL terminated all further
study of
Lake Vostok in S.
Antarctica. In an apparent slip of confidentiality, spokeswoman Debra
Shingteller alluded to "National
Security Issues" allowing the NSA to assume full control of what had been
an
International effort to
explore a huge, under-ice lake near the Russian Vostok research station.
Ms.
Shingteller was immediately
led away from the podium, and an aid responded to the many further
questions
with the same answer: "the
project has been halted due to environmental issues", and that no further
releases were pending. The large
crowd of press corp. were left clamoring as the officials left the stage.
Ms.
Shingteller has not responded to
repeated attempts at contact.The above is a report from an official JPL PR rep. who attended the
announcement. The following is part of
a letter written to an editor of Scientific American Magazine (who has
requested anonimity). The linked
photo at the end was released by NASA in Jan 2001 seemingly by mistake. It
is
no longer available from
the official archive.Approximately 300 miles from the South Pole there is a lake, a very large
lake.
It is Lake Vostok. It is also
located over 3/4 mile beneath the Continental Ice Sheet. The best photos
of Lk
Vostok are from space,
where the outline is clearly visible. Current ice-penetrating radar
studies
indicate that the water is up to
2000 ft deep in places, and has an over-arching dome up to 1/2 mile high.
Estimates for filtered light at the
lake surface indicate something like "continuous first morning light"
during
Antarctica's summer months.
Thermograph imaging proposes an amazing 50-degree average water
temperature
with "hot spots" near
65 degrees. This can only be attributed to subsurface geothermal heat
sources.
At 300 miles long, and 50
miles wide, the encapsulated atmosphere should have the ability to cleanse
itself through interaction with
the lake, and possibly... plant life.Also proposed as a possible route for atmospheric interaction with the
lake's
environment are what are
being labeled "geothermal boils". These are thousands of bubbles in the
ice
sheet located in the some 200
sq. miles of "ice dunes" discovered by the late Russian scientist Ivan
Toskovoi
who was stationed at
Vostok research base until his disappearance in March 2000. The surveyed
bubbles range from a few to
several hundred feet in diameter.Quite possibly just as exciting as all of the data related so far, is the
discovery through Magnetic Imaging
that there is an extremely powerful source of magnetic energy located at
the
North end of the lake's
shoreline. As of this writing, no one has suggested an explanation for the
magnetic "anomaly".As recently as February 2000, at least two international teams were
planning
separate probes of the lake.
Both consisted of fairly similar robotic sensors that would have been
lowered
through shafts(to be drilled).
The team based at Cambridge University, London were sponsored by the UK
and US
governments, and
backed by NASA technology. For reasons not clear, both programs have been
shelved indefinitely, with
NASA going so far as to deny any involvement, and both governments citing
"environmental concerns".
An independent source that visited Norway's research base some 150 miles
to the
East stated that a large
amount of new equipment and personnel have been arriving at Russia's
Vostok
Station over the last six
months. This is interesting considering Russia's current financial
situation.
A final note is a verified dispatch out of Casey Station(AU). The pair of
women
adventurers who were
attempting to ski across the continent last month, and were extracted by
plane
during the last leg of their
trip, did NOT request the intervention. Over the protests of the
Australian
crew at Casey, the two were
airlifted via an extraordinary 48 hour flight by a USN Special Forces team
out
of American Samoa.
According to the dispatch the women were insistent on reporting something
unusual they had seen. The
latest news reports have the pair resting in "seclusion".Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
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lake
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worth a look-see
WARM LAKE FOUND UNDER ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET
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Jean
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