World's Largest Canyon Spotted Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet!
Today, 76 years ago, is the historic day that George W. Gibbs, Jr, set foot on the West Antarctic Ice Shelf, making him the first man in the world of his race to do so. I woke up wondering what I would write to commemorate the day. Only to see this new discovery in the news, just announced on 1/14/16 in the Australian press.
“Our analysis provides the first evidence that a huge canyon and a possible lake are present beneath the ice in Princess Elizabeth Land,” (East Antarctica) Dr Jamieson said.
“It’s astonishing to think that such large features could have avoided detection for so long."
"The results of this analysis, published recently in the journal Geology, reveal a chain of winding features over 600 miles long and half a mile deep buried beneath miles of ice." This discovery will be confirmed later in 2016, trumps the latest finding in 2013 of Greenland's Grand Canyon. Due to satellite sophistication, "the age of discovery is far from over."
The canyon is over twice the size of the USA's Grand Canyon. Hello Mother Earth!