Micro-sub Explores Buried Antarctic Lake

[@ShmooyShmoo]

The next mission to Europa is the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), due to launch in 2022.

[@susanaaqui]

This is my cousin who passed away in his airplane in 2015, yes he was full of life and emotion. He invented instruments being used currently to better understand our environment here on earth and in Mars. RIP my dear cousin Dr. Albert Behar 1967- 2015

[@KSherwoodOps]

My question exactly.

[@MrLewooz]

Do not hurry though! Tons of test are necessary and in particular: how this stuff is going to pass through 5 or 6 kilometres of ice after landing in whichever position...

[@chronicleone]

Are there any good oceanographic based channels on youtube like Woods Gall or something? I found NOAA but they don't really put out a lot of content.

[@ASTROPLANETES]

Are testing a system for encelade exploration ?

[@p3yotlwilliamisi]

awzsome really interestin! i need to know more about it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@FluffyFluffles]

People said the same thing about getting to Mars after we landed on the moon, yet here we are almost 50 years later and we're even further from sending people to Mars now than we were then. 50 years comes and goes pretty fast, I wouldn't be surprised to see at least 50 years pass before we send a robot through the ice on Europa.

[@Taarnafeather]

I would loooove to see videos of the submarine camera while swimming in the lake... :(

[@gosucoaching]

Nice ice-hole you got there... I hope you practice catch-and-release.

[@UtubeIsBadNews]

That would be a very exciting day.

[@drwoods]

Vostok lake ?

[@i2ak]

That's considerably shallower than you thought!

[@VanRandom]

This is not lake Vostok being discussed in this video, but lake Whillans. The Russian and American team were in a race to reach the interior of each respective lake first, and Russia's lake Vostok was indeed the first one breached. However, neither the Russian nor the American teams found what they had hoped they would find: living organisms. It was expected to be teeming with ancient and primitive life forms, but is so far looking very cold and very dead.

[@reezlaw]

50 years sounds way over the top :)

[@thekbshouse]

After they've made fiber cable long enough to get it there.

[@PogieJoe]

To be continued, right? :D

[@hadhad69]

No, lake Vostok is more easterly than the one explored in this video.

[@The404Spartan]

They use it to control the vehicle. The military use the controller as well.

[@onthelongestroad]

Wow, estimating 10 meters but only finding it at 1.6? I wonder what could be the reason for that margin of error?

[@KiddsockTV]

wow. Very neat!!

[@MrLewooz]

well answered my friend!!!!

[@FluffyFluffles]

Including the science labs, drilling platform, and 8 people? Good luck.

[@TheTrollYouLuv]

Everyone they werent bored they had an xbox 360!Pause at 1:06 there is the controller!

[@GrandMasterSuperPhD]

Good Times !!!!

[@krejslayer]

Imagine the disappointment, if Europa is actually solid ice to the core.

[@onjofilms]

any buddy skiiing down der?

[@knasbollolo]

The Lake Vostok expedion will prove very interesting. The only problem I feel the Russians overlooked was water contamination. They used dirty, destructive, low-tech methods to reach the deep lake. Now if live exists in that over a million year old lake, it might already have been forever altered by the foul chemicals that drilling process used. They should have postponed until they could do the drilling in such a way that It did not contaminate the sample (The lake)

[@ParaglidingManiac]

Разве это "Восток"? Тут толщины льда практически никакой. Где 3.7км корки?

[@kdavidmcd]

Microbes! Did you find any??

[@O2Hyii]

I WAS THINKING THE SAME DAM THING

[@colinltube]

Ha, you forgot shape-shifters ! :)

[@toadboy65]

It is just a slideshow of still images. there is a better venue for that kind of presentation, even if the subject matter is interesting.

[@DavidLPeavy]

As interesting as this discovery is/was.... I can't help but wonder if we should have exposed the underground lake? Who knows what kind of microbial or bacteria life they'll find and the dangers they may pose to man today. But being the explorers were are... Scientist couldn't resist the temptation. Let's hope we don't regret it.

[@crocodylus73]

Microbes and hopefully fossils as well.

[@randomplantsandstuff]

Nope, this is NOT Lake Vostok.

[@champagnerocker]

So when are you going to strap this thing to a rocket and send it to Europa?

[@GFisher111]

yep there's mud

[@placerdemaio]

cool

[@TheHomson78]

This lake is called the Vostok. It is located under the ice at a depth of 3700 meters! It was only after several decades of hard work russian drillers can get a flask of water, age more than a million years! Glory to the Russian drillers! Glory to Russia!

[@NicklasUlvnas]

[...]except Europa. Attempt no landing there.

[@TheHomson78]

Скажите сначала нам (русским) спасибо, что мы до этого озера смогли добуриться! *чего никто в мире больше не смог сделать

[@vitaminowns]

this guy sounds like he's on death row where's the emotion

[@TheHomson78]

I agree, Vostok is another lake. And about "science, there is no place for patriotism"No??? then why U.S. citizens stuck the flag of their country at the moon?

[@champagnerocker]

JUICE is an oribtal only mission :o( ...and won't get there til 2030.

[@americanu197]

yes long live putin...keep putin stuff in space and antarctica

[@TheTrollYouLuv]

Peoe