Russian space № 4 (2012)

Russian researchers managed to get into the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica.

Scientists compare the penetration to this relict lake with landing on another planet and are already looking forward to the discovery of unknown life forms.

So is there life in Lake Vostok and how will Antarctic lake research help in space exploration?

Microbiologist Valery Fedorovich Galchenko, Director of the S.N. Vinogradsky Institute of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, answered the questions of the program host.