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I might play these sounds on a loop during Halloween ... eerie!
Scientists caught an Antarctic ice shelf singing a strange tune
Winds blowing across snow dunes on Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf cause the massive ice slab’s surface to vibrate, producing a near-constant drumroll of seismic “tones” scientists could potentially use to monitor changes in the ice shelf from afar, according to new research.
Scientists caught an Antarctic ice shelf singing a strange tune
Antarctica is honestly kind of creepy. It’s leaking from the inside; it loves to ooze some bloody liquids out into the ocean like some gargantuan stabbing victim; it’s a dry hellscape despite being covered in a thick layer of literal water (albeit the frozen variety); and now it turns out Antarctica is an avid whistler of some eerie tunes.
Bear with me: a new study published in Geophysical Review Letters this week details how scientists have picked up on strange tones resonating near the surface of the massive Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. While these wintery sounds have their place in the wintery landscape, you can banish the idea of anything resembling Frozen—these songs are more of the inaudible-to-human-ears type.
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The team eventually found that these trapped firn waves were created by the constant hum of wind brushing against the snow on the surface of the shelf. These sounds have been recorded before in other areas of the world, including Antarctica, but this research found that the tones were changing over time, in direct response to what was going on in the environment.
Bear with me: a new study published in Geophysical Review Letters this week details how scientists have picked up on strange tones resonating near the surface of the massive Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. While these wintery sounds have their place in the wintery landscape, you can banish the idea of anything resembling Frozen—these songs are more of the inaudible-to-human-ears type.
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The team eventually found that these trapped firn waves were created by the constant hum of wind brushing against the snow on the surface of the shelf. These sounds have been recorded before in other areas of the world, including Antarctica, but this research found that the tones were changing over time, in direct response to what was going on in the environment.
