PROHABA.CO – The sight as red as blood contrasted with the icy whiteness of the eternal snow.
The view is so disturbing to the eye, like a terrible scene has occurred in East Antarctica.
British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor encountered an eerie sight while traveling through East Antarctica in 1911.
During his expedition, he encountered a glacier edge that was emitting a red color like blood.
The mystery of this waterfall phenomenon continues to be a big question mark.
After a century later, the mystery of why the glacier, which is nicknamed Blood Falls or this blood waterfall, has finally been solved.
The Mystery of the Blood Falls Finally, a group of researchers have found an explanation for the mystery of the blood falls in Antarctica in a new study.
Quoted from IFL Science, Monday (10/7/2023) scientists in the United States used a powerful transmission electron microscope to analyze a sample of the blood waterfall.
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When analyzing the water samples, they found numerous iron-rich nanospheres that turn red when oxidized.
This then reveals the mystery of the origin of the blood-red color of the waterfall.
“After I looked at the microscope images, I noticed that there are small, iron-rich nanospheres and they have a lot of different elements in them and they all vary,” said Ken Livi, a research scientist in the Whiting School of Materials Science and Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University. , United States of America.
Previously, the red color flowing from the glacier was thought to be due to iron oxidation.
However, this new imaging technique has helped researchers get a clearer picture of why the water that comes out is bright red and why previous studies have failed to uncover it.
“In order to be a mineral, atoms must be arranged in a very specific crystal structure.
2023-07-12 03:41:37
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