What’s Beneath These Enormous Ice Sheets In Antarctica?

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What they found underneath there war absolutely unusual.  We are often looking at exoplanets and “space stuff” very far away.  However there is a whole world of mysteries right here on our planet.  One of the more fascinating ones has to do with the Antarctica ice sheets.  There have even been some cool documentaries recently on this region.  Here is a small intro from a cool video which takes a look at the great ice sheet:

The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 26.5 million cubic km of ice.

Ice enters the sheet through precipitation as snow. This snow is then compacted to form glacier ice which moves under gravity towards the coast. Most of it is carried to the coast by fast moving ice streams. The ice then passes into the ocean, often forming vast floating ice shelves. These shelves then melt or calve off to give icebergs that eventually melt.

Let’s find out more on what they found in the video on page 2

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