Incredible images of the Antarctic ice at 650 meters depth

A group of researchers studying Antarctic ice drilled a well 650 meters deep at the Filchner barrier.

The members of the FISS (Filchner Ice Shelf System) project developed by the University of Birmingham have successfully drilled a 650 meter deep well in the Filchner barrier in Antarctica. After making the hole, they placed a camera that managed to film the path down and the images were shared on social networks.

Once the drilling was completed, they introduced a camera and lowered it to the bottom. The video of the descent was published by Johannes Lohse, of the University of Birmingham, on his Instagram account.

The researcher is involved in the FISS (Filchner Ice Shelf System) project which aims to predict the impact of global warming on this ice shelf and the rate of ocean level rise.

A measuring device was placed in the well to collect data on temperature and ocean currents under the platform.

The tunnel was created with the aid of a hot water drill, a method also used in the BEAMISH project, in which a well with a depth greater than 2,000 meters in the Rutford ice was drilled early last month.

Worrying information about Antarctica concerns cracks recorded on the Larsen C platform that could cause a thaw that releases more than 50,000 liters of currently frozen water, resulting in an increase in the level of the sea.

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For its part, a group of Argentine scientists belonging to the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) announced the discovery of fossil remains of a new genus and species of older birds. About 65 million years ago on Marambio Island, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Argentina