Impressive images of Antarctica at 650 meters depth

Through a Drilling of 650 meters carried out with a hot water drill, a group of scientists sent a camera inside the Antarctic and captured incredible images of the frozen continent.

The mission was to excavate a straight well through which they lowered a device that filmed the rise in the level of the ocean and the state of the ice at different depths. In addition to the camera, a measuring instrument was placed in the hole. temperature data and ocean currents under the platform.

The operation, carried out on the Filchner-Ronne barrier, was part of a project called FISS (Filchner Ice Shelf System)whose goal is to study the impact of global warming In the region.

Johannes Lohse, a professor of environmental economics at the University of Birmingham and a member of the research, unveiled the video via his Instagram account.