Scientists Drilled Two Miles Into Antarctic Ice — Here’s What They Really Found

https://vernadiscovery.com 🧊 The Comeback Files: my guide to twelve American animals that came back from almost nothing, with the real counts and the sources. Bald eagles, elk, condors, wolves, and more. Beneath nearly three miles of Antarctic ice, there are lakes sealed away for millions of years. Here is what scientists really found when they drilled into them, and which of the famous Antarctica rumors are true. In 2012, Russian scientists reached Lake Vostok at 3,769 meters. Teams from Britain and the United States followed, and one of them found nearly 4,000 kinds of microbes living in the dark. This video walks through the hidden mountains, trench and volcanoes that radar has mapped, a 1.2-million-year-old ice core, and the plumbing system of more than 400 lakes. Then it checks the rumors: the Piri Reis map, "pyramids" on Google Earth, a secret Nazi base, the ice wall, and a radio signal physicists still cannot explain. In this video you'll learn: - How thick Antarctica's ice really is, and how scientists see through it - What radar found under the ice: a trench, a mountain range, and 138 volcanoes - Why Lake Vostok stays liquid under more than two miles of ice - Why the Russians' first result was doubted - Why the British Lake Ellsworth attempt failed - What the American teams found in Lake Whillans and Lake Mercer - What the Piri Reis map, the Google Earth "pyramids" and the secret German base claims get wrong - What the ANITA radio pulses are, and why they are still unexplained Everything here comes from published research and expedition records. Where this video offers interpretation, it says so. Topics: Antarctica, Lake Vostok, subglacial lakes, Lake Whillans, ice cores, Antarctic science, polar exploration, Antarctica myths. Please subscribe for more! It would mean the world to me. 😊 Verna Discovery looks at what happened after the headline. -Verna Chapters: 0:00 Drilling to a lake nobody has seen 0:48 How thick is the ice? 1:26 Seeing under the ice with radar 3:11 Lake Vostok and why it stays liquid 4:46 Ice cores: a million years of air 5:52 Hundreds of hidden lakes 6:44 The Russian breakthrough 7:53 The contamination doubt 8:33 The failed Lake Ellsworth attempt 9:12 Life found in Lake Whillans 10:56 The Piri Reis map and the pyramids 12:13 The secret German base 13:17 The ice wall and the Antarctic Treaty 13:58 The radio signal nobody can explain 14:42 What is really under Antarctica #Antarctica #LakeVostok #IceCores #AntarcticaMysteries