Mar 7, 2009: Down a Well

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is a very cool picture, with a very strange caption, from the English Russia website.

Anton Chekalin has visited Russian Antarctic station and has shot there some interesting places.
For example, what you see on the photo above is the Russian water well. The have made a 16 feet (5 meters) deep hole in the ice and there they can get fresh water from somewhere, so when person gets in there he can see sun trying to penetrate through this many feet thick ice.

Apparently in Antarctica they made a hole in the ice, down to an ice cave, where they can get fresh water... somewhere.
But looking at the angle between the stepladder legs, the size of the light spot below the ladder, and the angle of the shadow of the ladder, it's hard for me to believe it goes up another 16 feet.

Oh well, I like the picture.