And this is worth exploring, Holland said, because the polynyas delivery of ocean heat to the surface, followed by the sinking of that water as it becomes cooler and denser, plays an important role in global ocean circulation. She lives right across the street from where the FedEx pilot was hit by gunfire. Computers were just coming in. The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on Oct. 7 and ranks 13th largest since 1979. We thought this large hole in the sea ice known as a polynya was something that was rare, maybe a process that had gone extinct. Forrestal and Byrd got into hot water by thumbing their noses at the authorities who demanded absolute silence. Nature, international weekly journal of science. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Atmos. An even bigger gap, of 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) appeared in September and October of 2017. Nature Geosci. But he believes it could also have collapsed as recently as 120,000 years ago, the last time that temperatures were about as warm as they are today. It's thought both types of stationary animals are types of sponges or are related to sponges, but scientists did not expect to find them beneath the ice shelf, in pitch-blackness and hundreds of miles from the coast. Now, a team of researchers has bored a hole through the ice and sampled the ocean beneath it. Can we bring a species back from the brink? When I first went to Rothera, we used to get drinking water in the summer from a melt pool that formed on a patch of ice nearby. The winter ice on the surface of Antarcticas Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. Life discovered in buried Antarctic lake, Extreme Antarctica: Amazing photos of Lake Ellsworth. First published on January 31, 2019 / 12:23 PM. Hollow Earth Shop confirm the Nazi presence in Antarctica. Photograph by Herbert G. Ponting, Nat Geo Image Collection, One of Earth's loneliest volcanoes holds an extraordinary secret. There is a great deal of variation in the density of stratospheric ozone it varies by season, it varies by latitude so there were claims of depletion but they werent widely accepted yet. Climate change the will isnt there yet, and I fear it will take a disaster or two before that will appears. They claimed that to be the protectors of planet Earth to protect its inhabitants from the scurrilous activities of the power brokers and nefarious government agencies with impure agendas. The researchers think the cyclones winds pushed the ice outward from its center, creating a hole that would continue to expand over the days to come. Large bullet holes were visible in the front door, front windows and paneling of the house. A student lowered his camera 93 meters into the ground in Antarctica while collecting ice that's estimated to be over two million years old. But for [biologists], it is amazing because no one has ever seen these [organisms] before.. Admiral Richard E. Byrd Encounter With A Lost Civilization in People or creatures populating the center of the earth are some incredibly tall and very humanoid creatures that were extremely advanced. Mrs Howe, who has been awarded for her paranormal investigations, said she was contacted several times by the whistleblower. Read the Special Reports British War in Antactica for more details on the previous missions to Antarctica. The study also used data from the long-running Argo ocean observing program, elephant seals that beam data back to shore, weather stations and decades of satellite images. He was killed for his knowledge. If you're trying to subscribe with a non-UW email address, please email uwnews@uw.edu for assistance. Small mobile animals such as shrimp and crustaceans called sea fleas have been seen before beneath ice shelves, but no one expected to see stationary animals like these. The idea that cyclones can trigger the polynya raises the possibility that it will crop up more often in the future, with rising temperatures expected to intensify polar cyclone activity. Frieler, K. et al. We may earn a commission from links on this page. On the opposite side of the They then lowered cameras and other instruments through the holes, into the waters below. 58 (WMO, 2018). What we discovered at our Antarctic station was quite curious. In an email to Mrs Howe, 75, he said: "Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated five miles from the station. In any given year you could have several of these things happen, but unless you get them all, then you dont get a polynya.. WebThere is a hole presumably allowing a very civilization to dwell inside the world. Boom look at it. appreciated. It means that 41% of its Newman, P. A. Atmos. At 3:29 p.m. on November 28, 1929, Byrd, the pilot Bernt Balchen, and two others took off from Little America in the Floyd Bennett, headed for the South Pole. It's asking people to spot the giraffe hidden among the toy animals, 'I'm a model in my 60s I embrace grey hair and flaunt my body in bikinis', Kathy Jacobs, 60, is in the best shape of her life and she's not shy of posing in a bikini. And, of course, there was nothing there. One day in December, a cylinder dripping with gray gleaming mud was hoisted out of the borehole, into the bright summer suna core plucked from the sea floor, 2,400 feet beneath the drill site. Explore a billion-year-old volcanic mystery on Lake Superior, A journey of the senses through Abu Dhabi. Cold, dark and alive! But as the camera passed through the bottom of the hole, it showed the underside of the ice adorned with a glittering layer of flat ice crystalslike a jumble of snowflakesevidence that in this particular place, sea water is actually freezing onto the base of the ice instead of melting it. The lakes sit at the bottom of the ice sheet, where the ice meets the rocky Antarctic continent. ISSN 1476-4687 (online) Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Admiral Richard E. Byrd Encounter With A Lost Civilization in Antarctica On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. What happened on that flight? For years rumors have persisted that on his historic flight to the North Pole, Admiral Byrd flew beyond the Pole into an opening leading inside the Earth. Its just a theory. 96, 320325 (1970). This particular spot far from the Antarctic coast often has small openings and has seen large polynyas before. Some complained we shouldnt use that term, but once you let that term out of the bag, there was no going back. As we mentioned above,Admiral Richard Byrdof the United States Navy flew to the North Pole in 1926 and over the South Pole in 1929. The study was published June 10 in the journal Nature. Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Admiral Byrd stated that the North and South Poles are only two of numerous openings in to the facility of the Earth. I think I was probably the little thing in the background that made the difference and it was really a little voice from me being quite persistent that look, weve got to do something about this, that finally sort of drove them to right, well, we better write this up and better go to Nature because I think they had a better grasp of what a fundamental discovery this was than I did. The ice holeknown as a polynya in the parlance of sea ice researcherswas likely caused by a powerful cyclone that spun up in Antarcticas Weddell sea before migrating eastward into the Lazarev sea in mid-September 2017, according to research published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Navy Seal Reveals Secret Mission to Ancient Buried Structure in This machine generated a powerful jet of hot water, which they used to melt two narrow holes, each a few inches across, more than 1,100 feet down to the bottom of the ice. In a statement to WMC, FedEx said: Our thoughts remain focused on the well-being of our team member. and JavaScript. Right now people think most of the bottom water is forming on the Antarctic shelf, but these big offshore polynyas might have been more common in the past, Riser said. Amid the glow of 24-hour summer sunlight filtering down through fog, they assembled an automobile-sized contraption of pipes, hoses, and boilers. New York, She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthlymagazine of the American Psychological Association. "We're really talking about a water system that is connected to the whole Earth system. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is up to 10,000 feet thick in some places. Im really trying to figure out what happened, said Munn. The paper really changed the way people look at the environment. Why? Tom Metcalfe writes about science and space for NBC News. How did this mountain lion reach an uninhabited island? Global sea levels would rise by 10 feet if West Antarctica lost these crucial stabilizers and spilled its ice into the ocean. Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military and commercial aviation. Im now at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. After the visit, Byrd and his crew were guided back to the outer area of the Earth. It has been said that when he returned, he reported exactly what took place during this exploration. Its being called an unprecedented display of international cooperation to protect the worlds environment. A polynya, a Russian word that roughly means hole in the ice, can form near shore as wind pushes the ice around. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much Atmos. Every time I see [the pilots], they wave and smile. Ravishankara, A. R. & Hanson, D. R. J. Geophys. Meanwhile, the lakes beneath Academy Glacier drained between 2009 and 2018. Scientists have discovered two new lakes buried deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The fluorocarbon-ozone theory was a theory. Its a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it, Griffiths said. Nature 328, 408411 (1987). You had to learn how to find the right 9 track tape in a room full of tapes, and its really ironic to look at it today because the satellite was taking about 5 GB of data per year and at that time, when you said that, people were overwhelmingly impressed and now I think a lot of people probably run that through their smartphone every month. A mans world? Environment | News releases | Research | Science, The hole in the sea ice offshore of the Antarctic coast as seen by a NASA satellite on Sept. 25, 2017.NASA Worldview/NASA Blue Marble. He went on to become the single greatest polar explorer of the century, a feat recognized by the American government when they awarded him the, Admiral Richard Byrd referred to Antarctica as, Id like to see that land past the North Pole, it is the Center of the Great Unknown., A legend among those in the know was that Adolph Hitler did not die due to a suicide in 1945, but fled to Argentina, to an SS base carved under the ice in New Swabia during the very early 1950s, where he resumed his passion as a painter. Their data showed that, after about 20 years of fairly steady values, ozone levels began dropping in the austral spring months around the late 1970s (Fig. The ethnographic museum of the past is making its way to the exit.. It is not clear to me to this day who coined the term ozone hole and when and where it was done. Recently, scientists discovered a weak spot in the ozone layer over Antarctica. In 1938, a pilot named Isaac Schlossbach flew an airplane over the region where Crocker Land was supposed to be. The winter ice on the For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. My name is Richard Stolarksi, and Im a research scientist whos worked on ozone for many years. The Ross Ice Shelf is considered more stable, at present, than many of West Antarcticas other floating shelvesand this observation could help explain that: if a few inches of sea water periodically freezes onto the bottom of its ice, this could buffer it from thinning more rapidly. 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So, after the discovery of the 1985 ozone hole, there was already scheduled a set of negotiations over chlorofluorocarbons to reduce, but not ban, the production of chlorofluorocarbons, and what the discovery of the ozone hole does is demonstrate that there really is a problem and probably helped accelerate the negotiations that were already ongoing. Some of the Special Reports available at the. There it is. What they found in that paper was, during the springtime, a 40% or more decline and that that 40% only ten years earlier was not there, so this happened very rapidly. 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