If I hadn’t seen these photos with my own eyes, I would never have believed that the desert with two main colors of blue and white could be so strangely beautiful. Maybe NASA more or less thought so, when they launched the Ice Bridge campaign , capturing Antarctica from above for archival and research purposes.
Why should they try to do that? Because the ice at the Pole is going through a turbulent period: climate change is causing the atmosphere and sea to warm a lot, the melting state is for that reason. And the amount of ice in Antarctica is so great that if it melts, the sea level will rise 60 meters, threatening to engulf coastal cities and at the same time, we will also lose the millennial beauty of the ice in both the North and the South. Pole.
Here are great images of the white desert at the South Pole of the Earth. Try to keep this beautiful moment, because with this momentum, in a few decades, the tape will be on the “red book” for you to see.
Aerial photograph, as the team flew over Wilkes and Porpoise Bay.
Glacier in the East of Antarctica.
Denman Glacier.
Scott Glacier.
A giant iceberg cracked and split from Antarctica. According to NASA, these cliffs are more than 100 meters high.
This is Thompson Peak, flanked on both sides by Antarctic glaciers.
The Cook Ice Sheet meets the sea at this point.
End with an image, rather a chart worth pondering: Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tons of ice since the early 1990s, and in that time, sea levels have been gradually rising.