Sentences with phrase «dry valleys below»

In the Dry Valleys below the northwestern slopes of the Transantarctic Mountains, where buried ice never melts and humidity stays at some of the lowest levels seen anywhere on Earth, the world begins to look a lot like Mars.

Not exact matches

«We see this in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, where seasonal temperature variation is sufficient to form and sustain lakes even though mean annual temperature is well below freezing,» Palumbo said.

The oozy red slush of Blood Falls in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contains teeming microbial life — and may be a sample of a deep briny groundwater system hundreds of meters below the surface.

Data from a 1970s international research effort to explore the subsurface of the region, called the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, found tantalizing geophysical evidence — seismic and electrical resistivity data — that hinted at liquid water deep below.