first circles on the lake were recorded in 1999.At the time, the abnormal patterns nobody paid any attention.What kind of community, and where they came from?
mysterious polar patterns
5 April 2010 the International Space Station from a height of 350 kilometers makes fantastic pictures.The photographs clearly shows that the ice Lake Vostok in Antarctica has two printed if the circle is almost perfect shape.The images they seem small.However, the diameter of each of them - almost four kilometers.
first scientific assumptions
What many kilometers under layers of ice can be a life, first suggested by Academician Andrei Kapitsa.He spent seismic survey and found out that in central Antarctica under chetyrёhkilometrovoy layer of ice is a lake of incredible dimensions - an area of 20 000 m².This is ten times larger than the principality of Monaco.It is located directly under the Soviet research station.This subglacial lake Vostok in Antarctica still remains one of the most interesting mysteries of mankind.
Is there life in Antarctica
The study Soviet scientists found that under the ice hemisphere is filled with oxygen, which has a climate and unique ecosystem.Temperature fluctuations of water in the lake is 10 ... 18 ° C, in the spring in the Black Sea.This can only mean one thing - a multi-layer thickness of the Antarctic ice many kilometers there is life, and it is fundamentally different from that to which we are accustomed.
subglacial Assistant
For nearly 20 years, Russian scientists together with French colleagues and specialists from the United States are exploring subglacial lake Vostok in Antarctica.To find out what organisms over millions of years live there, under-ice created a special transport vehicle - cryobot (or gidrorobot).Using a jet of hot water he must drill a hole 3.5 km, and then wait until the space above it freezes.After that sterilizes the robot itself and continue drilling.Melted the ice cap cover and dropping in the lake, it passes the information to the surface for further study.
new discovery of Lake Vostok in Antarctica
In March 2011, when it was necessary to install a drill to drill yet only 120 meters, due to lack of funding the unique lake in Antarctica to study longer and close the project.And this despite the fact that just six months earlier, scientists have made a fantastic discovery.They found that Lake Vostok is the largest not uniform ice formation.Natural areas of Antarctica in contact with ice, form subglacial island.It was found that under-ice formation are hollow, so-called pocket space, which the water reaches different depth levels.In addition, a unique underwater topography of Antarctica in some areas of education has more than a thousand meters of depth, that is twice more than expected earlier.But the most amazing thing is that near the south-eastern part of Lake Vostok observed a large magnetic anomaly.
Polar host lake
other words, someone or something is outraged by chetyrёhkilometrovoy thick ice.Who can cause magnetic anomalies beneath the ice, scientists do not yet know.The most courageous researchers suggest that this makes some intelligent beings, and evidence, in their opinion, it is.Relief Antarctica was captured directly from the space just two months after research work on the study of the mysterious lake was suspended.Copies of photographs depicting circles on the frozen surface of Lake Vostok experts studied the London Research Institute.British scientists have carefully analyzed the entire area of Antarctica around the water body and made a sensational version.The figures marked on the inside of the ice cover, and then circles on the ice of the lake might appear due to the fact that under the water dwells unexplored underwater civilization.Perhaps the water have any base, and this will agree, is a very interesting fact.Mankind knows less about the depths of the oceans than on the lunar soil.So we have to study our planet for a long time.
mysterious Antarctica
Russian scientists with the opinion of his British colleagues did not agree.They believe that the area photographed from Space Antarctica, with its mysterious patterns on the lake - it does not follow an underwater civilization, but simply quirks of nature, and they were formed at the expense of warm undercurrents.Experts claim, if in the bottom of the lake there is intelligent life, they would have found it long ago.Many people think that this is the case as well as with the circles on the fields of the earth, they say, is the handiwork of man.Someone specifically falsifies such figures, while others consider them a form of contemporary art.It is believed that these features of the Antarctic weather caused, for example, slight variations in temperature.After all, the scope and terms - it is the natural form produced naturally by themselves.Chetyrёhkilometrovye circles on the surface of the subglacial Antarctic lake could indeed be some natural phenomenon, if not one but.Natural areas of Antarctica are such that to polynya formed, must literally boil over - it is the law of physics.But in places where they found mysterious footprints, ice thickness reaches three kilometers.To date, the scientific world is not known, no undercurrent that can erode a dense ice.
What we know about the South Pole
Antarctica Geographic coordinates determined by its highest point, the Cape Sifre (63 ° 14'S. M. And 57 ° 11 's. H.).This continent is the most marginalized of all the earth's surface.By area, the Antarctic is comparable to the South American continent.All approaches and the approaches to the ice "monsters" are blocked by huge icebergs and ice fields.In winter the ice to get to the mainland is not possible.Besides moss and lichen, there's nothing more growing.Constant cold storm winds make this continent mёrzly virtually impossible for human habitation.All the vital infrastructure of the few of its inhabitants (polar) is supported from the mainland.Extraction of natural resources, the import of weapons and military equipment, according to the international agreement, the continent is strictly prohibited.Antarctica may not belong to anyone.But every year the southern top of the earth's surface are sent ships and planes to the new polar scientific expeditions that have specific tasks.What they are looking for and what secrets hide rivers and lakes of Antarctica?
Mastering the polar continent
July 1, 1957 sixty-seven countries have agreed to carry out scientific research in a single program all over the globe.It was an unprecedented experiment.It started a big offensive in Antarctica.Thirteen ships flocked to its shores.Each country had to build their wintering station in strictly allotted to her sector.The Soviet Union went to the area between 80 and 105 east longitudes.The flagship of the first Soviet expedition diesel electric ship "Ob" arrived in the month of January 1956.Soviet polar explorers first saw Antarctica.Interesting fact: it noted that the coldest temperature on Earth was recorded precisely in the area of the station "Vostok".Here May 21, 1983 Polar Meteorology registered -128.56 degrees Fahrenheit, or -89.2 Celsius.
World resonance of unusual finds
Opening of Russian polar explorers was seriously disturbed all the international scientific community.Especially carefully the events of the expedition around Lake Vostok in Antarctica followed ichthyologists and jewelers.In water samples taken at a depth of 4,000 meters, we found traces of gold and unknown to science fish that literally can be called gold.
Gold Water Antarctica
When lifting ice cores from Lake Vostok, scientists have found in it, in fact, the gold metal.Micro-spectral study of ice and water ice unique lakes showed that the density of the gold ion concentration therein is 80%.That is, it turns out that the content of gold ions in the water corresponds to gold ingots 700-carat.Another thing is that the metal is in the water in molecular form, and to the naked eye it is almost impossible to see.One of the main problems for polar research is the mystery of sterile water, which found many metal impurities.There is an assumption that Lake Vostok is the largest gold-living, and this is confirmed by satellite imagery.Ridge, containing the precious metal inclusions may be a continuation of the underwater mine Yanokocha (Yanococha), which originates in the South American Andes, the coast of the Republic of Peru.Estimated gold-polar lived in their chemical composition is not uniform.In various parts of its precious metal inclusions have a different molecular structure.The South Pole is in this sense manifests itself as a magnet vseplanetarnyh scale.It turns out that part of the gold metal are simply mixed with water at a mass molecular diffusion.From the outside world of Lake Vostok in Antarctica is completely blocked by a thick layer of ice, so for hundreds of millions of years, the content of the precious metal can not escape anywhere.Keep this earthly treasure as an armored safe reliable bank, just below the Russian station "Vostok".Antarctica, the East (Lake) - an area of science.It does not belong to any state.But now a number of countries indicated their position: they are seeking admission to the riches that Russian scientists have found.
Goldfish in subglacial world
sensation was that Lake Vostok in Antarctica is inhabited.Unusual object-polar scientists have found in one of the samples of ice samples, namely scales some unknown to science and humanity of fish.Scientists call it the golden informally, and rightly so.Precious metals dissolved in the deep waters, completely covers this mysterious fish thin layer.Judging by the size scale, the polar individual has a length of about ninety centimeters.This unique Antarctic discovery could transform the entire basic science.It becomes obvious that in the twenty-first century tale about gold fish still exist.We can only hope that she is still alive and has not lost its fabulous and such seductive ability to execute any human desires ...
Riddle polar nature
still remains an open question about the age of Lake Vostok.At least 400 000 years, and maybe even a million.How did it come from?According to the first hypothesis, a glacier many kilometers from friction with the ground.He began to melt, and the high pressure water turns into ice at a low temperature, according to the law of thermodynamics.The second hypothesis suggests that subglacial lake has always been.However, when the colder, the continent shifted to the pole, it was covered with a crust of ice.For thousands of centuries, it is completely isolated from the water of cold air.
scientific hypotheses and further discoveries
What gives the world civilization the Antarctic research?Scientists call these findings for extraterrestrial life on Earth bacteria.If further examination of the lake show that there is no life, it will also provide an important discovery.Since this is the first ecological niche in which is not possible bacterial life.In both scenarios, this study will be useful for the search for extraterrestrial life on other planets, ice, such as Europe, the moon of Jupiter.
