Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake

[Marnie]

6. Of course once the "seal" of ice is breached, the "Contents" of the lake are forever

contaminated and changed.

As any naturalist or even physicist knows once a natural subject is examined or studied, the very fact that there is a study or examination makes the natural no longer natural.

The question in an instance like this is whether what we will gain is greater that what will forever be lost.
Would it not be better for knowledge's sake to wait until there is a technology than can examine with out breaching the seal, and forever contaminating the suspect and ruining it for future research.