By Igor A. Zotikov
The 1st booklet at the topic, this monograph examines the phenomenon of an enormous sealed, freshwater lake, remoted from the remainder of the area by means of kilometers' thick ice. The life of melting ice on the backside of the large Vostok Lake has served as a version and encouraged the staff making plans the Galileo house craft to collect information at the ice sheet of the Jupiterian moon Europa. The publication offers interpretation of, and calculations for, stimulating elements for attainable melting and a big lake's lifestyles on the backside of the Martian ice sheets.
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The seismic sounding at Vostok Station, however, he believed to be located away from the lake. It should be noted that the main radio-echo sounding continuous recording camera had jammed ®lm shortly after the aircraft arrived over the lake, and for a major part of the time that the plane ¯ew along the lake it was not working. The scientists on the ¯ight repaired it, and the camera recorded the bottom water re¯ection again just before the lake ended. The situation was a good example of Murphy's Law.
We both thought about it, and skirted around the subject at the time, but did not pursue it. Our collaborative work and discussions about a permanent melting at the bottom of the ice sheet below Vostok Station, and the possibility of the existence of a subglacial lake were already published. In 1963, Dr. Kapitsa and I proposed a project for a Sub-glacial Autonomous Station (SGAS, or PLAS in Russian), for the penetration of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to study the bottom water layer and the possible subglacial lake.
American electrical drill unit at Byrd Station (adapted from Ueda and Gar®eld, 1969). In 1968 this unit at Byrd Station penetrated 2,000 m of ice sheet reaching the bottom and encountering liquid water. the bottom of the ice sheet ± this was the ®rst attempt in Antarctica to reach the bottom of its central region. 3 gives some details of this drilling program. A report by Ueda and Gar®eld (1969) began: On 29 January 1968 a USA CRREL drilling team successfully penetrated the Antarctic Ice Sheet at Byrd Station after drilling through 7,100 ft (2,367 m) of ice.