so there's a mysterious doorway in the middle of Antarctica some people think it's Bigfoot's vacation home or a shuttlecraft from Star Trek or maybe a door to agartha a mythical Kingdom some people believe is located in the center of the earth well the scientists debunked all these poetic theories and explained that what looks like a mysterious doorway is located in an area of fast sea ice it's offshore of the coast and is full of little islands with shallow water around them when ice flows around hard rocks hidden underneath it can create patterns that look odd
but are totally normal in this spot the ice is thin so the Rocks underneath have a big effect on how the ice moves the cold winds in Antarctica also shape the ice and snow and make it look like they're lines and shapes so the mysterious doorway is just a Rocky Ridge poking out because the ice has melted a little the top of the doorway is the tip of the Rock and the sides are snowy Trails left by strong winds blowing in the same direction it's essentially an iceberg that got stranded and is melting in one
place one YouTuber found another out ofpl mysterious object more than 150 Mi off the shore of Antarctica a 400t long ice ship the internet went wild with theories like that this ship must have ended up there right from the Bermuda Triangle but there was no scient ific proof that it was a ship and not just a large chunk of ice and once some other internet users Revisited the place they noticed the ice melted in the summer and the hypothetical ship was gone another mysterious Google Maps find in Antarctica was a pyramid and before you make
up an exciting theory about how the ancient Egyptians built a secret base here I have to tell you it turned out to be just a mountain it's part of the tallest mountain range in Antarctica that stretches for almost 250 Mi it's not the first pyramid on this continent as explorers from the British Antarctic expedition found another unusually shaped mountain and nicknamed it the pyramid but this one didn't even have a pyramid shape here's one Antarctic find that definitely won't disappoint you a giant ice shelf that reminded scientists of the Grand Canyon a special submarine robot
named ran covered over 600 Mi under the thick ice and brought back some amazing footage of icy mountains valleys flat plateaus and swirly patterns made entirely of ice one of the strangest things ran found was giant ball-shaped holes or Scoops in the ice sadly scientists lost track of the robot they think that curious Wendell seals may have accidentally bumped into ran and caused it to get stuck to save energy ran probably shut itself down and the scientists couldn't find it again but the team is hoping to build a new robot and continue exploring this icy
Canyon to see how the patterns under the ice might change over the years another huge Antarctic Canyon was found thanks to bad weather a team of sound experts had to pause their work at the Casey research station in a storm instead of waiting around they decided to use the unexpected free time to map the seafloor near Adams glacier and that's how they found a canyon that is almost 7,000 ft deep almost 30,000 ft wide and stretches over 28 Mi away from the glacier during the mapping they discovered just part of the canyon before they had
to go back to the research station but when bad weather came in again the ship went back and mapped more of the canyon they were working in waves up to 13 ft high and super powerful winds but they managed to get about 15 hours of data to complete their map on the way back to Australia they stopped one last time and now they've got a full picture of the canyon studying it is helping scientists learn more about the history of glaciers and the interaction between the Antarctic ice sheet and the ocean now there's a frozen
lake in Antarctica called Lake Enigma for a long time people thought the lake was completely frozen solid but during one Expedition researchers found that under the thick ice there was a layer of liquid water about 40 ft deep to learn more they drilled through the ice and sent down a camera to explore what was hiding in the Lake's depths the Lake's water which they think comes from the nearby amorphous Glacier through a secret underground pathway was filled with strange microbial life these tiny microbes lived in mats that covered the lake bed some of the mats
were thin and spiky and others look like crumpled carpets or even small tree likee shapes that grew up to 16 in many of the microbes could make their own food through photosynthesis just like plants do and it gave the lake a high amount of oxygen one of the coolest discoveries was a type of microb which usually lives in low oxygen Places Lake Enigma might be similar to environments on icy moons like Europa or in cetlus so it could mean that these moons also have hidden water under their ice and possibly microbial life too one more
mindboggling Discovery from Antarctica is tiny pieces of Amber in mudstone found here for the very first time it took scientists years of studying incredibly well-preserved fossilized Roots pollen and spores that they found back in 2017 Amber proves that resin producing trees once grew in Antarctica part of a lush rainforest that existed near the South Pole during the mid Cretaceous Period back then disclaimer I wasn't around then the trees would have had to survive through months of darkness during the long Antarctic Winters scientists believe they adapted by going dormant for a long time the Amber pieces
the scientists found are tiny but there are beautiful shades of yellow and orange with bumpy surfaces that show how the resin flowed out of the trees this resin likely leaked out to protect the trees from insects it was preserved because water quickly covered it and kept it safe from sunlight and air a scientist was browsing through satellite images for brown Trails of penguin waste and found four new colonies of emperor penguins at the base of the globe these new colonies likely have been around for years though three of them are rather small with fewer than
a thousand breeding Penguins each one of the new colonies was found close to a place called The Lazar of ice shelf where there used to be a larger penguin Colony they thought this Colony went extinct in 2019 but it seems the penguins have just moved a bit because of changing sea ice conditions so studying them can help us learn more about how emperor penguins adapt to changes in the environment now they're used to be a giant river system in Antarctica 40 million years ago researchers found proof of it after studying soft sediments and hard rocks
from the Frozen seabed they looked at tiny bits of radioactive elements like uranium and lead and learned that the deeper dirt came from the time of dinosaurs the dirt closer to the surface was younger and had an interesting pattern like the kind you see in river deltas today such as in the Mississippi River or Rio Grand scientists found tiny Signs of Life In The Sand the river that once flowed here started in the trans Antarctic mountains and traveled 930 Mi before it reached the sea researchers kept studying newer layers of dirt from about 20 million
years ago they hope this will help them predict what the Earth's weather patterns might be like in the future that's it for today so hey if you pacified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if you want more just click on these videos and stay on the bright side
