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Scientific discovery: a landscape of green hills and valleys under the ice of Antarctica
Researchers have discovered an intact landscape beneath the ice of Antarctica. Update with Lorraine Gublin, on the 8 p.m. set. – (France 2)
Researchers have discovered an intact landscape beneath the ice of Antarctica. Update with Lorraine Gublin, on the 8 p.m. set.
It is a landscape millions of years old. “Direction the South Pole, in Antarctica. There, researchers from the University of Durahm, in England, looked at a small area of East Antarctica, 400 km from the edge of the ice cap.“, indicates Lorraine Gublin, on the 8 p.m. set. “If I take you there tomorrow, you will see a white, icy, flat landscape, but nevertheless, with satellite and radar images, we can see what is happening under the ice“, adds the journalist.
A landscape of valleys
Researchers “saw that under 2 km of ice, there are like boulders, in fact like hills which are the traces of a landscape as if frozen in time, which has probably not seen the sun for 34 million years“, reports Lorraine Gublin. What did this landscape look like then? “It’s quite astonishing, it’s a landscape of valleys, traced by rivers, and according to researchers, it’s a landscape that probably looked more like North Wales, but with vegetation like in Patagonia“, specifies Lorraine Gublin.