Blood Falls - Wikipedia
WEBBlood Falls is an outflow of an iron(III) oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Antarctica’s Blood Red Waterfall - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBJan 31, 2014 · Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation. One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would...
Has the century-old mystery of Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” finally …
WEBJul 12, 2023 · Enlarge / Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Scientists believe a buried saltwater reservoir is partly responsible for the discoloration, which is a form...
Origin of Antarctica's eerie Blood Falls | Earth | EarthSky
WEBMay 18, 2015 · Blood Falls is a bright red waterfall oozing from Antarctica’s ice. It’s nearly five stories high, in the McMurdo Dry Valley region, one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth, a...
Scientists Find Life in Antarctica’s Blood Red Falls
WEBApr 30, 2015 · The underground microbes could help scientists detect life on other planets. Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation...
Century-Old Mystery Of ‘Blood Waterfall’ In Antarctica May ... - Forbes
WEBJul 10, 2023 · In Antarctica, Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Over 110 years ago, geoscientist Griffith Taylor discovered a unique waterfall during an expedition to ...
Blood Falls in Antarctica, what makes them red? - EarthSky
WEBMay 21, 2023 · Blood Falls is an iron-rich, hypersaline discharge phenomenon. And it spews bold streaks of bright-red brine from within the glacier onto the ice-covered surface of Lake Bonney.
Wintertime flow of Blood Falls caught on camera for the first time
WEBMay 2, 2022 · Blood Falls is a five-story-tall blood-red waterfall in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, the only waterfall of its kind on Earth. Unlike a regular waterfall, Blood Falls spurts out red, briny water from the terminus of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of Lake Bonney. But why red?
Scientists Solve Mystery Behind Antarctica's Blood Falls
WEBApr 27, 2017 · But at Taylor Glacier, a 34-mile-long polar glacier, you’ll find startling sights of red—a blood-like deposit of iron-rich, salty water flowing into West Lake Bonney. For years, Blood Falls (as...
Blood Falls, Antarctica’s Dry Valleys - NASA Earth Observatory
WEBAmong the most interesting—and most puzzling—features of the Dry Valleys lakes is the reddish stain seeping out of Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. The reddish discoloration, known as Blood Falls, appears in this false-color image.