Blood Falls

On the continent of Antarctica, there is a tip of a glacier that is not so much of a white but of a red. This tip is called blood falls. What happened to this area of Antarctica was that the water was rich with iron. And when it was exposed to oxygen it turned into a red color. Scientists think that the water that supplied the iron was from a salty underground lake. They also think that about 1.5 million years ago, a giant glacier moved up over the lake causing no oxygen to live there. This also made organisms that could actually survive without oxygen. Scientists also think that this can open up possibilities for organisms to live on other planets throughout the universe.

I think it’s pretty amazing how now things can live without oxygen. Also it would be pretty sweet to live on another plant. I think that will probably happen sometime in the future because science is improving every single minute. I also think that the way that glacier was formed was very cool. And it’s cool how the color turned out a rusty red color.