2023-11-02 19:53:34
A team of scientists from the United States and Great Britain discovered and immense landscape of hills and valleys carved out through an ancient river system, beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet.
As he pointed out to Nature Communications he glaciologist and research team leader Stewart Jamiesonfrom Durham University, The discovery took place during a scanning what they were doing, more than 300 kilometers deepin the area of Aurora-Schmidt basins.
To carry out the study, the researchers used the satellite images existing surfaces to trace valleys and ridges more than two kilometers deep.
Meanwhile, when they combined the images with the data from the radioelectric surveys, the surprising image of a river landscape of plummeting valleys y hills with sharp peaksvery similar to some of those that currently exist on the surface of the Earth.
Although until now this landscape had managed to maintainbe surprisingly intact for more than 34,000,000 yearsspecialists assure that the global warming that is afflicting everyone is seriously threatening leave it completely exposed.
“This area, of 32,000 square kilometersmust have been home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. It is a landscape to discover: no one has laid eyes on him”he commented Jamieson.
“The exciting thing is that it has been hidden in plain sight. This terrain under the East Antarctic ice sheet “It is less known than the surface of Mars.”concluded the specialist.
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