Why is this Antarctic Glacier “Bleeding?” | Antarctic Extremes
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Did you know that Antarctica has a glacier that bleeds red? (At least, that’s what it looks like.)
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Five stories high and emerging from the Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, Blood Falls seeps into an ice-covered body of water called Lake Bonney. It’s one of the continent’s most enigmatic natural features and has fascinated scientists for decades. What makes it red? Does it always flow? And can anything actually survive near it? To find out-and see just how bizarre Blood Falls is with their own eyes-Caitlin and Arlo travel to the Dry Valleys, about 60 miles from McMurdo Station. There, they meet with microbiologist Jill Mikucki and hydrogeologist Peter Doran to investigate why this glacier looks the way it does, what lives there (spoiler: CHARISMATIC MICROBES!), and what clues it holds for finding and understanding life on other planets and moons in our solar system, like Mars, Jupiter’s Europa, and Saturn’s Enceladus. Answering these questions, it turns out, requires lots of probes, cameras, and even a massive sensor hanging from a helicopter.
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CORRECTION: This video incorrectly states that Enceladus is a moon of Jupiter. It is a moon of Saturn.
Awesome correction! It's so easy to get all of those moons mixed up without a strong mythology background:)
oof
Lettuce Enceladus :-)
PBS Terra it also incorrectly pronounces AnTartica. The first T isn’t optional. Asides from that, great work!👍🏻
I have research on this please contact me. I have new species at 8 min you see a new Hominid. ua-cam.com/video/QRuXOxZparM/v-deo.html
This show has unexpectedly changed my perception of the scientists living and working in Antarctica. Y'all seem fun and passionate about the work you're doing.
I’m so grateful that you guys are posting on UA-cam, thank you so much for sharing this on an easy to reach platform!
The cut is a little strange but I'm going to show this to my kids.
Dr Z. sent me!
Also amazing video, already subscribed.
Welcome monster lovers!!! 🧟♀️
Awesome, Thanks PBS Terra!!!
this channel is seriously underrated
In other documentaries about Antarctica we always see that the scientific station buildings have to adjust their elevations because of the changes of the thickness of the Ice they are located on. As mentioned here in this video there are parts of Antarctica which are not covered with ice and snow, so why don't we take all the scientific stations to these areas and settle them directly on earth and make them permanent? Even by digging caves and bunkers into the rocks of the mountains around, stations can be embedded into the mountains and beneath earth so with least heat exchange there will be least energy needed to warm these stations plus least environmental impact on Antarctica.
PBS is STILL the BEST for science info. BRAVO !!!
Has anybody seen the horror movie Blood glaciers before I think this is where they got the idea from.
Space time sent me! While I’m here I’ll ask a question...from my experience all microbial life is transparent. Is it really like that? And if it that’s the case,why? Aren’t there opaque tiny things?
Love what you do! Enjoy Anctartica for me while you’re there!
Okay, this was fun and educational.
Longer version?
This is so interesting. Glad I came across this channel
This is truly fascinating! So many mysterious things in this planet that we earthlings live in. All scientists can do is to speculate on the whys and hows.
Watching shows like this make me fearful for our future- the damage being done to Antarctica is going to mean disasters we can not truly imagine.
SpaceTime sent me here.
Nice series btw.
Very interesting, I wonder if they got a chance to join the vanda lake club, lol, its where people run out to the lake, get wet and run back, lol…it’s kind of a crazy tradition thing, people who visited the dry valley lakes…
Enceladus is a moon of Saturn not Jupiter
Hi Jai! Thank you so much for pointing out this error. We've pinned a correction comment up top, and will be replacing the video on NOVA and PBS's websites today. Can't believe we made such a stupid error! We do take accuracy very seriously, and appreciate the feedback. THANK YOU.
Space Time, Eons, and Storied sent me here.
SpaceTime sent me here. Rocking!
Physics Girl....
Blood turns red when hemoglobin (containing iron) is exposed to air. So most of the time we can see blood, it’s rusty. The ancients were right when they thought the planet Mars was the color of blood, the color associated with the god of war.
Roger at Mudflood University knows why look him up
Dr O’Dowd sent the PBS space time goons to say hello :~)
Nuclear leak??
U.S. Department of Energy, the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Navy in 1962. In that year the U.S. Navy delivered a nuclear reactor to Antarctica to power the McMurdo Station.
That was really interesting. What a great opportunity for bright young people.
Summary; it was a dirty lake underneath. Snow melted and it came up.
It looks more orange than red!🍊
Iron and Sodium rich water?
I wonder how the activity relates to pole shifts?
Came here from Physics Girl.
Love from Sweden ❤
If you want to understaand what the blood falls is, you should listen to Tore says show 04 May 2021 Antartica one......might be to heavy for some of you...just a warning.
This is fantastic.
It's very nice video, informative so
There was a time on earth that you couldn't see the sun. The sky and land were the same colour... copper almost. Could that be deposits from that time on earth? Couple of cultures speak about it.
I never thought NoVA could be stupid
it looks like melting mud under the ice
PBS Spacetime sent me!
An extraterrestrial experience 😱
Ansher live inside the inner earth from Antarctica.
Water freezes at -7 degrees celsius. You should know this.
go to midfos uo l unoversiyy yo ñeatn what is goinh on hete and all over tje estyh. He is a trie prophet
It looks more orange brown than red
Glacier having it's period, well I would have come up with something better than that.
Send us your resume, we can add you into our writing staff
They shouldn't have gone near it if it was during its period
Just had an idea while looking back over these comments: would someone either point out a video (that is the "source of informat" you seem to agree on) coveting how the population if this planet came to disagree on measurement(s)?
Or, If there is no video, one should be developed.
For some reason I thought it would be far colder where they are... but it's that cold at my house right now... It's t-shirt weather.
They only do research in the sumer in Antarctica and in the summer it can get to as high as 70 f°, the water coming from the glacier is not the temp of the air
@@maxgucciardi4507 so... t-shirt, swim trunks and flip flops (sandals)... They are wearing enough clothes to be in a blizzard... I'd be sweating like I was in a Sauna...
6:16 yOu CouLd Say ThAt BLooD FaLLs IsnT rEgULAr
This gives me a feel like a good TV documentary. Too bad UA-cam encourages shorter length videos. I feel this topic would have deserved a deeper look into details like how they measured water under ice using a flying probe etc.
They literally said that it was called Skytem and that it uses electromagnetic waves. You can actually Google "SkyTem Antarctica" and find their own videos and report on this mission.
@@vintagethrifter2114 , Thanks. It was just a concrete example how ten minutes isn't enough for a good document. It felt like a good 45 to 60 minute document but details cut out. Just my feed back because they were asking for viewer feedback.
10 min is already a lot
@@dahliaxxv5162 ur attention span is broken
It's a load of crap anyway, that's why it has no intellectual depth, because there is none!
My father's first cousin was one of the geologists who discovered Blood Falls, Thomas Erik Berg. He was killed in a helicopter crash in Antarctica in November, 1969. There's a mountain peak named after him, Berg Peak, as well as the Berg Field Center building at McMurdo Station.
Yy was he killed they are more wierd discoveries they don't talk about🙄🙄
@@kemigisaptience2223 what
Lmk if you need some work I be out berg peak. Clear and H for the low
He must of found out the truth . About where the blood is actually is coming from. I think he found out that the beasts in the book of Enoch were actually real.
Could you share with us his diary? Or thing he said, they didn't kill him for any reason
Wouldn't have seen this without Physics Girl
Me too. I'm gere because of her :) not complaining at all
Sameee
I'm here on my own. 🤙
@@Nyrua yes, the name of her channel, usually doing interesting stuff.
Its worth a peek👍
Simp...
“What is that in Fahrenheit?”
“Use Siri, kid”
LOL
Those researchers are savages
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Lol
I didn’t hear that lol all I heard was her saying she can say it in the voiceover
@@robijuli236 that’s what I would say if what I •actually• wanted to say was something this hard 😆
...or maybe that’s just me projecting
😂😂
I’d be tempted to taste highly salty water...that would be the drop that would start the zombie apocalypse. ✌️😁
It's funny how the joke was made about how the blood falls aren't regular 🤣 I noticed that went right over the guys head.
They may been aware of the pun but were unsure if laughing would be the thing to do as males in mixed company being filmed.
I am really enjoying the series. I'm glad public broadcasting exists and interesting content like this can be produced without catering to the mass appeal of a commercial audience.
How come this channel hasn't gotten 1M subscribers yet? I'm in love with it❤️
oh dunno, maybe because it was created like 2 weeks ago?
duh 🙄🙄🙄
We’re new here 😎. Tell your friends!
@@pbsterra " Please Sir...Can we have some more?"
Go to channel and "About".
I blame the dumbing down of the education system ...and short attention spa.....oh look a red car
Apart from the interesting content I have to say I'm really impressed with the image quality of the video.
But this particular video is full HD while the rest are 4k. LOL
Yes, the quality is awesome yet.
They should rename Blood Falls into Rust Falls 🤔
Also send here via Physics Girl btw.
Blood is red because of hemoglobin, which contains iron. Blood is rusty when we usually see it.
@@NelsonBrown I know :)
Blood falls just sounds cooler
Yeah I agree it rly doesn’t look like a blood red.. maybe like a diluted, dried blood lol
Just when you didn’t think Antarctica could not be any weirder
Great channel. Love those Tardigrades ;)
This is a bloody amazing video
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I feel like this could be a scene in a horror movie. Like Antarctic explorers going about and then.... this big red spot in all of the white snowy landscape.... they investigate only to find an ancient being slumbering beneath the surface!
Blood Glacier kinda
Lol don’t resist your hunches my friend your right on track. Research gog and Magog and the ancient civilazation the reason why I came to this video is for that reason I’ve been doing my research on it and it clearly says they have been trapped under ground for thousands of years and guess how they got trapped….IRON…. Ding ding ding
Pbs Space time Made me crawl in a box and I ended up here!
I knew almost immediately that was iron oxide, but that knowledge come from living in an old house where I have to clean it off my bath tub.
Have you watched 'The Thing' yet!?
One of my favorite movies! They actually have a big Halloween screening of it in the American Antarctic base :)
smart scientist: its negative 5celsius
poor american: how much fahrenheit?
also poor american: 5.2 = almost ten
Actually it would be 10.4 so we will be over 10
You smooth brain. LMAO
Could someone translate Cristopher Reeves’ comment into English?
Don't you think is time for you to know that? Check it out and do the math.
Physics girl brought me here
Well, I called it.
Also, Dr. Z sent me.
Physics girl sent me!
Big up the Love for Diana!
Happy Physicsing!
After reading these comments I have to wonder why schools exist and why we pay teachers. Man kind is a lost cause.
I really hope to see a longer coverage on this because it is so facinating, so unique that it needs more coverage to go into all the levels of complexity and research projects occuring in that special region. I love the tests that they are conducting and it really does open up the bridge towards understanding what certain not earth conditions might be like or relatively close to, in ways that we never have seen or understood before. Plus we get to learn about a region of our planet we hardly know nothing about in depth and detail. It's so cool to see Antarctica in more than this vast thick ice sheet. There is so much more going on there, especially in the water ecosystems. I'd watch science about it everyday. Seriously. I love it!
A massive amount of long passed creatures or one Big Ctesture, that have petrified or turned into mud fossils and are finally giving up the Iron from Their Blood..Seriously
Or it could be water very rich in iron, like my neighbors well.
Personally, I like my first suggestion. That is always amazing to find. A huge mud fossil of a long passed ancient creature or man that looks perfectly preserved in mud fossil, shape yet still retains the iron, breaking down from the blood.
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Intriguing stuff! It very much adds a sense of life on this planet. Hell maybe antartica will become habital some day with this new found knowledge. Great stuff ^_^. Btw Dr. Z brought this to my attention.
@Jose Adriani Buselli point taken... maybe this land and other planets are better off left alone xD
Here cuz of @physicsgirl
Edit. Good stuff, you've earned a sub. ❤
Hey! There I am at the 1:27 mark, right behind Jill Mikucki! This was an amazing trip!
I get north, south, east, and west is pretty much arbitrary. But how is our sense of direction on other planets established, Is it in relation to the sun?
Not to spoil it but .......
It’s a Defrosting whale, that was stuck in the glacier...
One of thousands...
Damn :D
btw, that colour, it’s not red.
It's shit
Click bait
I see a deep red lol...
What is the color you perceive rust or copper to be?
Thank you for SUCH an amazing video guys! I flew over the blood falls last january, I still cannot quite believe it. An absolute dream come true!
It's a real Dragon beneath the ice!I saw a video where this man shows an image beneath the ice and it clearly shows a dead dragon and it's the biggest thing that I ever saw!The funny thing is,I can't find that video anymore!! If anyone can find that video, please let me know.. Thank you..
Have they DNA tested it? Looked at it under a microscope?
Imagine, you're a micro organism living under that glacial. You're born in a cold and dark environment, but you don't know that, cz that's how it always been, you don't know that you're the living in shadows, you don't have a single clue that there's other creatures, countries or even planets, all you know is that darkness you live in.. Nothing else..
Seems pretty scary, but in a good way.. It reminds me of how truly small we are
Can you please check there is big wall of iron and Copper because in Quran one chapter about zulkarnain he made one big wall by iron and copper so there is 100% chance to that wall is there wall height is like big mountain
Oh, we need more content!!
I wasn’t expecting this to end so soon. Fascinating stuff but this was just a teaser for my scientific mind. Looking forward to more information. Thank you. 👊
Roger at Mudfossil University here on UA-cam will tell you exactly why this is happening.
Could there be blind cave-like fish in those buried lakes, even a small ecosystem in what can be described as ancient ocean under the ice.? Many fish about poles have evolved protections against the intense cold. There could be ancient life waiting to be discovered in there.
Dr. Z sent me! Very interesting video!
Physics girl sent me!
When did blood falls start flowing? Is it recently like last century, decade?..
That's a great question! The first explorer to discover it was one of the earliest Antarctic explorers -- Thomas Griffith Taylor -- in 1911. He was part of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition. So, it's been flowing since then. Not continuously... as the episode and time-lapse images show the pattern of when it flows isn't regular. And we've only recently got cameras on it, so who knows what was happening in the years (and possibly whole decades) since 1911 when no one was there to observe it. BEFORE 1911, it gets even harder to say, because there are no observations.
Why does everything have to be so overproduced these days? Just get to the info already...
From heat forms stream,there's water in some form on Every Planet & Moon in our Solar System,the release in my humble opinion would be that it is Planetary Magnetic Properties in play,life as we know will soon come to pass...
I am confused. Why is there no condensation from the breath in this video? -5.2 Celsius here in northern Sweden will produce a quite noticeable cloud from the mouth, here it looks more like 10 degrees above freezing point?
-5 C° is just the temp of the water coming out of the glacier, research in Antarctica is only done in the summer where temps can reach as high as 70 F° (idk what that is in C°) because the winters are deadly.
Either it's iron or some type of microorganism. Blood? Come on man!
Gog and Magog trapped inside
Wouldnt have found this amazing channel without the help of Diana
Could the iron be from a buried meteor?
Earth’s crust is full of iron. Probably been sleeping into the aquifer for ages
They should dna test the blood
I think Physics Girl would have shouted "Fire in the hole" much better... like she meant it. LOL Thank you, Dianna Cowern for pointing me to this excellent channel! The PBS Terra team are doing a great job uncovering a world we don't know about.
Mother Earth is dying....
someone get her some ice
How does this mean mother earth is dying,
Got 30 seconds in before I could no longer stand hearing them mispronounce AnTarctica.
So basically, blood falls is Mother Earth's period
Chuck Norris punched that glacier.