Sunday, January 05, 2014

Antarctica's Stunning Secret: the "Blood Falls"





It sounds like something out of a slasher movie: a waterfall that spouts blood. But the true nature of Antarctica's Blood Falls may be closer to sci-fi.
In the remote McMurdo Dry Valleys in Eastern Antarctica, a slow ooze of vivid crimson seeps from a fissure in the Taylor Glacier and onto the frozen surface of Lake Bonney. It’s easy to see where the five-story-high falls gets its name. The Earth itself seems to “bleed” out onto a landscape of pure white ice below in a stunning contrast.


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