The generators - TiME would carry two - could conceivably sustain several years of service on the lake surface.
Today, the scientists announced that they have successfully reached the surface of the lake.
FORBES: Russian Scientists Successfully Drill To Subglacial Antarctic Lake Vostok
Water hyacinth grows into a thick bed of waxy leaves and violet flowers that cover the surface of the lake.
By late afternoon, I'd fine-tuned my falling-off-a-building sailboard technique to the point where I was bumping along the surface of the lake for minutes at a stretch.
Scientists from Urals Federal University found 53 small meteorites on the surface of the lake and believe a larger fragment is under water, said Viktor Grokhovsky, the scientist who led the effort.
CNN: Russian scientists track down fragments of Urals meteor
Left to savor are virtuoso touches, like a flock of birds that becomes useless paper, a train that glides along the surface of a lake, and one of the great villains of all time, Yubaba, who looks like a bobble-headed grandmother on speed.
Pipes have now been put in place in Lake Nyos and nearby Lake Monoun to siphon water from the lower layers up to the surface and allow the CO2 at the bottom of the lake to slowly bubble out, preventing a repeat of 1986 tragedy.
The problems of getting at Lake Vostok (and of preventing organisms from the surface from contaminating it) are, give or take the billion kilometre spaceflight required to get there, the same as those that would arise in any attempt to get a probe into Europa's putative oceans.
Detailed studies of the surface indicate that these were formed by a lake caused by the flow of underground water that periodically made its way to the bottom of the crater.
Changing temperatures in the lake during the winter could have brought stagnant water to the surface, thus asphyxiating entire schools of fish.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Russian researchers say they have brought up fresh samples of clear ice from Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a huge reservoir of freshwater more than 2 miles beneath the surface.
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