Model of a walking sampler for research of the bottom surface in the subglacial lake Vostok

• Published in: Journal of Mining Institute
• Main Authors: Evgeniy V. Shishkin, Alexey V. Bolshunov, Igor P. Timofeev, Alexey М. Avdeev, Ilia V. Rakitin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Saint-Petersburg Mining University 2022
• Subjects: antarctic; lake vostok; sampler; sampling; subglacial water body; bottom surface; walking mover; Mining engineering. Metallurgy; TN1-997; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.31897/PMI.2022.53; https://doaj.org/article/4b9de5179dff405b923c80fd418c7f7c

Technologies and technical means for investigation of subglacial lakes in Antarctic is a new developing scientific and technical direction, which today has no clearly established methodology. Based on the developed technology of drilling a new access well to lake Vostok and its penetration as well a...