Wonder What's Beneath The Enormous Ice Sheets In Antarctica?

who knew?

We often search for stars, exoplanets and evidence of alien life at extremely vast distances. What about the mysteries here on planet earth such as what exists beneath Antarctica. 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.

There is a whole world there which we still know very little about!

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