Absorption of nitrogenfrom the airandcarbon from contaminating substance has been foundonthesurfaceofquartzglass, soda-lime glass andleadcrystal glass samples.
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.