Using ice-penatrating radar over 1,500 miles long strech of ice, researchers studying ice loss on Antarctica have discovered a "Grand-Canyon-sized" valley beneath the glacial layer. From CNN:
“If you stripped away all of the ice here today, you’d see a feature every bit as dramatic as the huge rift valleys you see in Africa and in size as significant as the Grand Canyon," the lead researcher, Robert Bingham, a glaciologist at the University of Aberdeen, said in a press release.Apparently the valley makes it possible for the warmer ocean waters to speed the melting of the glacier. The valley is on the western part of the continent.
Via CNN.
