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Camera dropped into hole 305ft underneath Antarctica makes incredible discovery

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Published 10:07 25 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Camera dropped into hole 305ft underneath Antarctica makes incredible discovery

PhD student Austin Carter posted the results on TikTok

Britt Jones

Britt Jones

If you thought you were over seeing creepy shiz on the internet, then come and get a load of this never ending hole into the unknown.

Okay, so you may have thought that we've found out everything there is to know about Earth, but that's just not true.

While we carry on trying to learn more about space, the planet we actually live on is a mystery.

But people probably didn't think Earth would be so weird, after it was discovered what underneath Antarctica would look like.

Now you're going to find out too.

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A camera was once dropped into a hole 305 feet beneath Antarctica and researchers made an incredible discovery.

We know a lot about the icy area thanks to geological history, which is examined by looking into ice sheets that have been around for an unknown amount of time.

Even though ice melts and reforms each year, there are near-permanent sheets that are as deep as hundreds of meters, which haven't melted for centuries.

Thanks to that factor, their composition hold a lot of answers about the world.

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A viral TikTok video managed to capture some interesting footage of what's going on in the deep blue, and it's equally creepy too.

Austin Carter wowed social media users with the short video. (Storyful)
Austin Carter wowed social media users with the short video. (Storyful)

The video from Austin, a researcher who worked with the Center for Old Ice Exploration (COLDEX) to look into some Antarctic ice sheets in 2022, begins with an action camera being dropped down one of the deep bore holes that COLDEX uses to extract samples from the ice.

The camera was let loose 93 metres to the bottom, giving us a surprisingly trippy icy journey.

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It's quite an amazing video, starting with Carter at ground level waving goodbye to the camera before it speeds down the small hole.

It doesn't take long for things to lose their sense of scale, with the vertical icy tunnel almost starting to look a bit otherworldly.

It looks a little like speeding through an incredibly narrow tunnel on a train, or even being on a bobsled, and people have been pretty amazed by it.

The clip provided a unique insight. (Storyful)
The clip provided a unique insight. (Storyful)

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Many have since flocked to the comments section of the TikTok video to provide their thoughts.

"Honestly this was really scary," one person commented while a second asked: "Much respect, and pls take no offence, but why? Why spend time and money for a study on old ice?"

COLDEX and similar research teams can learn a lot about our ancient history by studying the ice at these depths - particularly where the climate is concerned.

Samples from different depths can help us to glean information about long historical patterns of warming or cooling.

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And with the climate crisis still a hot topic of conversation, all this research may being able to better predict the effect of global warming on the planet, including what it might do to those very same ice sheets.

Featured Image Credit: Storyful

Topics: Science, Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Antarctica

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

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