Earth & nature / DAY 12 OF 40
The glacier with a red outflow.
Blood Falls is a story about hidden brine, not a bleeding glacier.
Here's the strange part.
Blood Falls has a name that does not leave much work for the imagination. Behind the red outflow is a brine system associated with Antarctica's Taylor Glacier. Radar work traced a route connecting a brine source to the falls through the glacier. That is a look into hidden plumbing, not proof of every dramatic age claim attached to the water. (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research)
The radar work traces a brine pathway. It does not by itself establish that the water was sealed away for more than a million years.
REALITY CHECK · TRUE OR FALSE?
The glacier's plumbing report has limits.
Mapping the brine pathway alone proves the water was sealed for a million years.
Go straight to the receipts.
Curious about the methods, dates or details? Open the original source and keep the caveat in view.
ORIGINAL SOURCEScientific Committee on Antarctic ResearchOpen publication ↗NEXT IN THE 40-DAY TRAIL / DAY 13Venus does sunrise backwards. ↗