East Antarctica

There are genuine ice caves along Antarctic ice shelves, channels beneath the ice, enormous cavities underneath floating ice, and some of those cavities connect directly to the ocean.

Then there is Toton Glacier in East Antarctica.

Scientists used measurements taken from aircraft along with radar and found an underwater entrance into the cavity beneath the ice shelf.

Later measurements described a huge underwater trough, basically a deep channel, around 10 kilometers wide and roughly 600 meters deep.

Hey there, this is Jaran, facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department, located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica, signing in for yet another cold shift.

So, I woke up tonight, and there is, to say the least, something is going on.

So currently I'm sitting by my desk in my office and when I woke up today I got out of bed and the room that I'm in, it was the same, the chair was there, the bed was there, everything was there except for the floor, the walls, the roof or anything else.

Hey there, this is Jaran.

I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department, located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.

I'm signing in for yet another cold shift.

Tonight has been, well, nothing short of bizarre.

What they did was found a meteorite that had originated on Mars.

and wound up in Antarctica, where apparently meteorite hunting is easy, because you can see where the ice has been dented, and bring back the meteorite.

NASA has a huge collection of Some of them are very useful for hunting for magnetic fields.

Not all of them.

I mean, really the beginning.

4.5 billion years minus a couple of million.

They found one that pleased them, named after the Dominion Ridge in East Antarctica.

Sample 08006.

With David Livingston, we welcomed on Kaui Borlina of Purdue University, a previous PhD student in 2022 at MIT.

He and his professor and a team took a meteorite from Mars that NASA found and cataloged in Antarctica.

Apparently they stick out.

They just hit the ice and stick there.

You can find them.

Dom for Dominion Range in East Antarctica, 08006.

And they found in that grains of the early solar system, very early.

And those grains, made up of calcium and other elements, they call them CAI, I believe, it's a window on the formation of the solar system.

This is Jaran.

I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department, uh, located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.

I'm, um, signing in for yet another cold shift.

Now, Thomas Grind is in a mood these days.

It was like a thousand ants had been crawling around on the page before getting crushed underneath the heel of a boot.

It was a struggle to read, you know.

But fortunately, here on the coastal strip of East Antarctica, I have an abundance of time for a deep dive into concentration land.

And it was quite relaxing, actually, trying to decode his scribbles.

And so this is the time period now where they're gonna start appearing all over the country and in wetlands and in these areas where we see the sort of virus circulating.

And the other thing is we, we could see the virus moving from Australia to other places that it, it hasn't been, like East Antarctica and Macquarie Island because we have all these migrating sea birds that have come from different Antarctic islands all around the place, all mingling together, you know, a bunch of kilometers offshore, and they'll go back, uh, during summer to the islands they come from and they might... or East Antarctica, and might bring it with them there.

So it reached Australia from some Antarctic islands, but there are others that haven't, where it hasn't been detected yet, and it, we might end up being the, the base that it hops around from and reaches those other ones.

Macquarie Island sounds like a particularly tragic story 'cause of the huge seal colony that as yet is okay, but scientists are quite worried, aren't they?