In easily accessible regions of Canada and the US are numerous glaciers with access to their undersides. Further, the ice is thick, often dirty and stratified with rocky inclusions and other debris. Plus, glaciers are dynamic, with all sorts of internal stress and movement as they work their way down the mountains.
Pretty handy proving grounds I'd think. Plus I'd always jump at any new reason to be in the mountains. Jack -----Original Message----- From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@;aeiveos.com] Sent: Monday 28 October 2002 09:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some more thoughts on Proteus/IcePIC On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shouldn't we include in our goals a cryobot and hydrobot that could test for > life in a place like Lake Vostok? The folks from NSF/NASA are working on this. Its been an ongoing effort for a decade or more. Serious scientists will scream very loudly if a bunch of amateurs crack the Lake Vostok seal. Its considered a pristine sealed "time capsule" environment and a lot of work has/is been/being done to determine how to open it without contaminating it. I believe the past ice-core efforts have drilled to within a few hundred meters of its surface but have explicitly stopped to avoid contamination. (That is even if you could get a permit to operate a machine over Lake Vostok. I believe its in the Russian section of Antarctica and so you would have to get approval from their officials. Thats about as probable as a snowstorm in hell.) Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/ == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
