For the first time circles on the lake were recorded in 1999. At that time, nobody paid attention to the anomalous patterns. What are these circles, and where did they come from?
April 5, 2010 International Spacethe station from a height of 350 kilometers makes fantastic photos. The photographs clearly show that the icy Lake Vostok in Antarctica has two seemingly printed circles of almost perfect shape. On the images they seem small. But the diameter of each of them is almost four kilometers.
То, что под многокилометровыми толщами льда может life exists, first suggested academic Andrei Kapitsa. He conducted seismic studies and found that in central Antarctica, under a four-kilometer thick layer of ice, there is an incredible lake of 20,000 m². This is ten times more 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 for mankind.
In the course of the study, Soviet scientists found outthat under the ice is a hemisphere filled with oxygen, having its own climate and a unique ecosystem. Temperature fluctuations of water in the lake are +10 ... +18 ºС, as in the spring in the Black Sea. This can mean only one thing - under the multi-layer stratum of the Antarctic multi-kilometer ice there is life, and it is fundamentally different from all that we are used to.
For nearly 20 years, Russian scientists togetherwith French colleagues and experts from the United States are exploring the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica. To find out which organisms have lived there for millions of years, they created a special ice transport vehicle - a cryobot (or a hydrorobot). With the help of jets of hot water, he must drill a well 3.5 km away, then wait until the space above it freezes. After that, the robot sterilizes itself and continues drilling. Having melted the lid of the ice dome and down into the lake, he transfers information to the surface for further study.
In March 2011, when the drilling rigit was necessary to drill another 120 meters, due to insufficient funding, the unique lake in Antarctica is no longer being studied and the project is being closed. And this despite the fact that literally six months before this, scientists have made a fantastic discovery. They found out that Lake Vostok is not at all the largest homogeneous ice formation. The natural areas of Antarctica, in contact with ice, form ice islands. It turned out that there are hollow ice formations, so-called pocket cavities, in which water reaches different depth levels. In addition, the unique underwater terrain of Antarctica in some places has a formation of more than a thousand meters in depth, that is, two times more than it was supposed earlier. But the most surprising thing is that a large magnetic anomaly is observed near the southeastern part of Lake Vostok.
In other words, someone or something causesoutrage under the four-kilometer layer of ice. Who can cause magnetic anomalies under the ice, scientists do not yet know. The most courageous researchers assume that some rational beings are doing this, and there is evidence, in their opinion. The relief of Antarctica was filmed directly from space only two months after the research work on the mysterious lake was suspended. Experts from the London Research Institute studied copies of photographs depicting circles on the surface of a frozen Lake Vostok. British scientists have carefully analyzed the entire area of Antarctica around the water body and put forward a sensational version. The drawings are plotted on the inner side of the ice cover, which means that the circles on the ice of the lake may appear because an unexplored underwater civilization lives under the water. Perhaps there are some bases under water, and this, you will agree, is a very interesting fact. Humanity knows less about the depths of the oceans than about the lunar soil. So we have to study our planet for a long time.
Russian scientists with the opinion of their Britishcolleagues do not agree. They believe that the space taken from space of Antarctica, with its mysterious patterns on the lake, are not at all traces of an underwater civilization, but simply freaks of nature, and they were formed due to warm underwater currents. Experts assure that if intelligent life existed at the bottom of the lake, they would have discovered it long ago. Many people think that the situation is the same as with circles in the terrestrial fields, they say, this is the work of man. Someone specially falsifies such drawings, and someone considers them as one of the forms of modern art. There is an opinion that such meteorological features of Antarctica are caused, for example, by slight temperature fluctuations. After all, a sphere and a circle are natural forms that are formed in nature by themselves. The four-kilometer circles on the surface of the subglacial Antarctic lake could indeed turn out to be some natural phenomenon, if it were not for one thing. The natural areas of Antarctica are such that, in order for proparins to form, the flow must literally boil - this is the law of physics. But in places where mysterious prints were found, the thickness of the ice reaches three kilometers. To date, the scientific world is not aware of any undercurrent that can erode such dense ice.
The geographical coordinates of Antarctica are determined byat its highest point, Cape Sifre (63 ° 14 ′ S lat. and 57 ° 11 ′ W. d.). This continent is the most isolated of all surfaces of the globe. On the area of Antarctica can be compared with the South American continent. All approaches and approaches to the ice "monster" are blocked by huge icebergs and ice fields. In winter, to reach the ice continent is impossible. Besides moss and lichen, nothing grows here anymore. Constant cold storm winds make this frozen continent almost impossible for human habitation. The entire vital infrastructure of its few inhabitants (polar explorers) is maintained from the mainland. Extraction of natural resources, the import of weapons and military equipment, by international agreement, to the continent is strictly prohibited. Antarctica can not belong to anyone. But every year ships and aircraft with new polar scientific expeditions, which have certain tasks, go to the southern top of the earth's surface. What are they looking for here and what secret are the rivers and lakes of Antarctica hiding?
July 1, 1957 sixty-seven countriesagreed to conduct research on a single program around the globe. It was an unprecedented experiment. A grand offensive on Antarctica began. Thirteen ships rushed to its shores. Each country had to build its wintering station in the sector strictly allotted to it. The Soviet Union got a section between the 80 and 105 eastern meridians. The flagship of the first Soviet expedition, the diesel-powered Ob ship, arrived here in January 1956. Soviet polar explorers first saw Antarctica. An interesting fact: it was noted that the coldest air temperature on Earth was recorded precisely in the area of the Vostok station. Here on May 21, 1983, polar meteorologists registered -128.56 degrees Fahrenheit, or -89.2 degrees Celsius.
The discovery of Russian polar explorers is not a jokeexcited the whole world scientific community. In particular, ichthyologists and jewelers followed the events around the expedition to Lake Vostok in Antarctica. In water samples taken at a depth of 4,000 meters, gold was found and traces of a fish unfamiliar to science, which literally can be called gold.
When raising ice rods from Lake Vostokscientists have found in it, in fact, the golden metal. A micro-spectral study of the ice and water of a unique ice lake showed that the density of the concentration of gold ions in them is 80%. That is, it turns out that the content of gold ions in water corresponds to the gold ingot of the 700th sample. Another thing is that the metal in water is in a molecular form, and it is almost impossible to see it with the naked eye. One of the main tasks for polar research is the enigma of sterile water, in which so many metal impurities are found. There is an assumption that Lake Vostok is the largest gold-bearing residential, and space surveys confirm this. The ridge containing precious metal inclusions may be a continuation of the Yanococha underwater field, which originates in the South American Andes, off the coast of the Republic of Peru. The proposed gold-bearing polar vein is not homogeneous in its chemical composition. In its various parts, precious metal inclusions have a different molecular structure. In this sense, the South Pole manifests itself as a magnet of a global scale. It turns out that part of the gold-bearing metals is simply mixed with the water mass at the level of molecular diffusion. From the outside world, 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 cannot go anywhere. This earthly treasure is kept, as in an armored safe deposit box of a reliable bank, exactly under the Russian station "Vostok". Antarctica, East (lake) - is the territory of science. It does not belong to any state. But now a number of countries have indicated their position: they are seeking admission to the riches that Russian scientists have found.
The sensation was that Lake Vostok inAntarctica is habitable. An unusual object scientists-polar explorers found in one of the samples of ice samples, namely the scales of some fish unknown to science and humanity. Scientists informally call it gold, which is quite reasonable. Precious metal, dissolved in the deep waters, completely covers this mysterious fish with the thinnest layer. Judging by the size of the scales, this polar individual has a length of about ninety centimeters. Such a unique Antarctic find can turn the whole of fundamental science. It becomes obvious that in the twenty-first century the tale of a goldfish still exists. One can only hope that she is still alive and has not lost her fabulous and such seductive abilities to fulfill any human desires ...
До сих пор остаётся открытым вопрос о возрасте Lake East. At least 400,000 years old, and maybe a million. How did it come about? According to the first hypothesis, from the friction of a multi-kilometer glacier with the surface of the earth. He began to melt, and from a high pressure the ice turns into water at a lower temperature, according to the law of thermodynamics. The second hypothesis suggests that the ice lake has always been. However, when it got colder, the mainland shifted to the pole, became covered with a crust of ice. For thousands of centuries, it has completely isolated water from cold air.
What do these world civilizations give?antarctic research? Scientists call these findings extraterrestrial life on the bacterial planet Earth. If a further survey of the lake shows that there is no life there, then this will also be an important discovery. Since this will be the first ecological niche in which bacterial life is impossible. In both research scenarios, this will be useful for finding extraterrestrial life on other ice planets, such as Europe, the satellite of Jupiter, for example.
