'Lake of the devil': Detects tremors at a depth of 4000m

Securing this mystery in Antarctica, alien life may no longer be the "problem" of humankind.

7/2013 became an important milestone, marking the discovery of geography - the extremely important history of mankind: Satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered a huge lake, buried completely buried under 4,000 meter thick ice in Antarctica .

. Lake Vostok

Experts estimate that Vostok is isolated and "imprisoned" under the cold, thick ice in East Antarctica for 15 to 25 million years.

Deeper than 700 meters, 250km long, the largest place is 50km and contains about 5,400 km³ of water, Vostok is officially the largest freshwater lake among the 140 Antarctic underground lakes discovered to date.

Because of the mysterious and mysterious existence in the lake itself, the name "Lake Vostok - Eastern Lake" that international scientists also called it "Ghost Lake" (Ghost Lake).

The 3D model shows a giant lake (purple yellow) beneath the 4,000m thick ice in Antarctica.(Image source: British Antarctic Survey).

The desire to explore the most primitive place on Earth

100 years after the adventurers first arrived in Antarctica, scientists "yearn" to explore underground freshwater lakes beneath the cold, thick ice in the fourth largest continent in the world ( after Asia, Africa and the Americas, larger than Europe and Australia).

Being the coldest continent on Earth, with 98% of the surface area covered by an average of nearly 2,000 meters of ice, Antarctica has the lowest natural temperature measured at freezing temperature: −89.2 ° C.

The desert contains only cold, ice and "killer winds" that cause people to shrink their eyes, nosebleeds, choking, vomiting and sudden increase in blood pressure. exploration of international scientific circles.

Antarctica is one of the harshest places on Earth.(Illustration: Gentside Découverte).

A year after the discovery of "The Devil's Lake" , in 2014, Russian scientists led an international expedition team to explore the most primitive location on Earth.

Because it is located in the East of Antarctica (colder than the West of Antarctica) and is buried at a depth of 4,000 meters of thick ice, scientists' access to this gigantic lake is not easy.

In order to drill 4,000 meters into the thick ice, Director of Vostok Research Station - Russian Scientist Alexei Turkeyev, has carried out drilling in the Antarctic summer to reduce the cold, despite the measured temperature. be at drilling is −40 ° C.

After a long period of hard work for many years with the use of bore technology preventing water re-freezing, scientists drilled 3,750m of tape.

By January 2015, scientists had successfully collected water samples from the lake and sent them to the Grenoble Environment and Ice Laboratory in France to conduct research.

International ice crew at the Vostok Research Station.(Photo: Wikipedia).

Scientists use the technology of drilling to prevent re-freezing of water into Lake Vostok.(Illustrations: Fox News).

Despite the desire to declassify inside the largest underground lake in Antarctica, scientists still "regret" that: Once people touch their hands on Lake Vostok, it will permanently lose its original pristine time. points to save the history of the Earth 15 to 25 million years ago.

However, if viewed from another positive perspective, the discovery of a giant lake from satellites and the great efforts of the scientific community to approach this "evil lake" has an enormous significance. .

Due to the ancient nature of the lake, the vestiges of history (where a completely different form of life may be hidden), scientists hope to uncover the mystery of geological history for tens of millions of years. of the Earth (specifically, understanding the characteristics of our Earth in the period before the Ice Age).

Studying life under the lake Vostok, scientists hope to uncover the mystery of Earth's tens of millions of years of geological history.(Image source: WordPress.com).

This discovery will also help scientists learn about alien life, but for a long time scientists still "go crazy" to hunt outside the vast universe; Help explain somewhat about the conditions for forming Mars life and the moons of Jupiter.

"The expedition to the lake is buried 4,000m deep in an interesting and eager ice as we discover life on a distant planet that no one has ever touched on Earth," said one scientist. from the Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg said.

Hopefully, in the near future, international scientists will soon find a complete answer to the "evil" lake in Antarctica, which helps to partially decipher the ancient Earth and have more discoveries. in the discovery of "Century Project" : Alien Life.