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"The
nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their
marvels are strange and terrific.”– The Festival – H.P. Lovecraft
It’s
reported today in the Washington Post and the ever fascinating IO9.com that the
latest attempt to explore Lake Vostok is a mere 40ft or so from breaching the
ice cap which has sealed the lake off from the rest of the world for the last
twenty million years, you can read about it here exploration
of lake Vostok and here Russian
scientists prepare to enter sub glacial lake. Lake Vostok is the largest Antarctic
sub glacial lake, it’s the size of Kuwait and it’s been buried under four kilometres
of ice for between fifteen and twenty mega-years. This is a pristine and
potentially utterly alien environment. The ice cover keeps it dark yet heavily oxygenated
and the pressure and insulating qualities of the sheer volume of ice above it
keep it liquid even though the average temperature of the water is below
freezing point.
