4/09/2010 09:53:00 PM
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Antarctica, KOMPAS.com - In recent years, the panorama Glacier Blood reappeared at a location of the Antarctic continent. The phenomenon is located in Mc Murdo Dry Valleys are famous as vast areas without ice, is one the most unique regions in the continent of Antarctica.
The valley is located at the South Pole though, but there are rarely ever the ice, because the winds that sweep into the valley with the speed (hurricanes) 320 km / h capable of grabbing all the moisture.
When someone walked alone up the valley, after the carcasses of penguins and other animals, can finally see a glacier, "Blood."
It is said that the bloody glacier was discovered by Robert Scott's expedition team in 1911, later proved to be caused by iron pengoksidasian.
Reportedly, each specific period, the glacier can shoot clear fluid that is rich in iron oxidation and then immediately going into an old red menggiriskan.
Discover Magazine mention, the liquid is derived from lake-rich salty water content of salt at a depth of 390 meters of ice.
Recent studies have found there are bacteria in such a difficult situation whose lives rely on the substance of sulfur and iron compounds.
According to researchers, since the glacier was born from the lake, creating an ecological environment in such a cold, dark and without oxygen. Such a group of bacteria already isolated over 150 million years.
Besides the scientists also think, bloody glacier produced by the bacteria there is the possibility of outer space creatures that live in our solar system, for example under the polar ice sheets both Mars and (a month's) Jupiter is also the possibility of life there.
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