The Mysterious Ice Wall: Update from Antarctica

Near Cape Evans in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, a glacier plunges into the ocean. On the surface it's a gnarled hunk of crumbling ice that merges with the sea ice, then disappears. Underwater, the glacier presents as a totally smooth expanse of ice that descend as far as the eye can see into the abyss. An apron of ice blankets the sea floor in front of the glacier face - smooth enough that a diver could sit on it and slide down. Just another of the otherworldly landscapes we find under the ice in Antarctica. For more info, please visit www.moo-antarctica.net The McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory is a project managed by Paul A. Cziko at the University of Oregon USA, supported by the US Antarctic Program and funded by the US National Science Foundation.