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- Blood Falls is a waterfall of vibrant red water that oozes out of Antarctica's Taylor Glacier. Its unique color is due to iron salts seeping out of the ice that turn red when exposed to oxygen. The falls are home to microbes that can survive extreme conditions, with no light or oxygen.
Jan 10, 2023 · Blood Falls is a waterfall of vibrant red water that oozes out of Antarctica's Taylor Glacier. Its unique color is due to iron salts seeping out of the ice that turn red when exposed to oxygen.
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Apr 27, 2017 · The bizarre red waterfall was originally thought to get its colour from algae and now researchers have found a link to a large salt water source that may have been trapped underneath Taylor...
Jun 26, 2023 · During the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica in 1911, British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor made a mysterious discovery at the rocky base of the glacier that now bears his name: a waterfall of what appeared to be blood.
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Apr 27, 2017 · Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Antarctica's Blood Falls. The case of the flowing red waterfall has finally been solved, more than a century after it was discovered. Exploring the frozen...
Did you know there's a waterfall in Antarctica that looks like it's bleeding? Known as 'Blood Falls,' this eerie phenomenon is caused by iron-rich water seep...
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Apr 30, 2015 · Scientists have known for a while that life exists in lakes of liquid water frozen beneath Antarctica’s surface. For a long time, the falls’ eerie color was thought to come from red algae....
May 2, 2017 · In 1911, during an expedition to the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor discovered something strange: a glacier gushing blood-red water. Decades later,...
