In Search of New Life Forms under the Antarctic Ice Sheet

... calculate our financing during future budget processes. It is important that during the past two or three years, we have finally approached the funding level during the USSR in 1985. Photo: telegrafist.org Lake Vostok Dr. Lukin, what does water sampling in Lake Vostok mean for Russian and global science? To begin with, let's define lake. Any encyclopedia would explain that this is a water body characterized by a shoreline and a water layer. Naturally, the exploration of a lake implies researching the water layer but not the ...