ever wondered what is beneath the enormous ice sheets in Antarctica?

In this incredible video they go into depth on the composition and mystery.  So what do you think is under there?  Massive more amounts of ice?  Or perhaps is it related to the Alien vs. Predator movie and one of them is waiting to come out of hiding? 😉  In all seriousness there are life forms that can sustain the extreme cold conditions that may look very different than you might have imagined.  Here is a bit more background into this video:

The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 26.5 million cubic km of ice.

That is, approximately 61 percent of all fresh water on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to 70 m of water in the world’s oceans. In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sea level. The land in this area would be seabed if the ice sheet were not there.

Let’s check out what mysteries they uncover in the video on page 2

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