The crack from the Taylor Glacier in the dry McMurdo Valley in Antarctica has a blood-red flow, so it’s called “Blood Falls”. This is also a mysterious place that intrigues many people.

“Blood Falls” was once a mysterious place, located in the McMurdo dry valley in Antarctica

The highlight of this waterfall is that it is very cold, super salty and blood red. In 1911, when “blood waterfall” was discovered, it was thought that the red color was caused by a type of algae.

But recent research shows that the amount of iron underground under the salt lake was covered by glaciers 1.5 million years ago. The average water temperature is -17 degrees Celsius, the salinity is 2-3 times higher than normal sea water so it cannot freeze.

Blood Falls appear from a crevasse in the Taylor Glacier in the summer when temperatures in Antarctica warm

Images below the glacier have solved the old mystery, showing a complex network of underground rivers and underground lakes. All are filled with high salt water rich in iron, giving the water its distinctive red color.

In the summer, when temperatures in Antarctica warm, the lake water rises. That is also the reason why we see the strange “Blood Waterfall” flowing.

This is a super salty waterfall rich in salt, giving the water a special red color

Inside the water sample there is an entire ecosystem of bacteria that have lived there for millennia in harsh conditions with extremely low temperatures, sunlight cannot penetrate the thick multi-layered layer of ice of the river. Taylor tape. Only iron and sulfur are the basic energy that sustains archaea that have existed for millions of years.