Incredible images of Antarctica at 650 meters depth

February 21, 2019

A group of researchers drilled the ice and sent a camera that captured images up to the bottom.

Project members IPSS (Filchner Ice Shelf System) developed by the University of Birmingham They managed to drill a hole 650 meters deep in the barrier Filchner of the Antarctic After making the hole, they placed a camera that managed to film the path down and the images were shared on social networks.

Through the Instagram account of Johannes Lohse, One of the researchers participating in this project, you can see the video that shows the inside of huge blocks of ice on the icy continent.

The objective of the project IPSS is to predict the impact of global warming on this ice shelf and the rate of ocean level rise. For this, they placed a measuring device inside the well, to collect data on temperature and ocean currents under the platform.

They discover a threat to humanity at the bottom of the ocean, which, when it begins, will be irreversible

The tunnel was drilled with a hot-water drill in the same manner as the one used in the project. BEAMISH, in which he reached up to 2152 meters deep in the ice flow Rutford, in early January. The goal was achieved after 63 hours of work and the intention of these researchers is to study and badyze the effects of global warming.

A disturbing piece of information about Antarctica is that referring to the cracks recorded on the platform Larsen C this could lead to a thaw that releases more than 50,000 liters of currently frozen water, resulting in an increase in sea level.

For its part, a group of Argentine scientists belonging to the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) they made known the discovery of fossils of a new genus and a new species of bird aged about 65 million years on Marambio Island, according to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.