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Unveiling Antarctica’s Blood Falls: Is This Mysterious Glacier Hiding a Dark Secret?

Unveiling Antarctica’s Blood Falls: Is This Mysterious Glacier Hiding a Dark Secret?

Even with that explanation, though, there is still much about the seemingly bleeding glacier that continues to capture scientists’ attention.

Thomas Griffith Taylor, the adventurer who discovered Taylor Glacier and Blood Falls.University of Chicago Photography Archives
Blood Falls’ red water is the result of iron, but researchers initially believed the color was caused by algae.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
A helicopter soaring over Blood Falls.Wikimedia Commons
Specks of iron dust across the ice of Lake Bonney, where Blood Falls lets out.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Taylor Glacier, discovered during the infamous Terra Nova expedition.Wikimedia Commons
The findings from Blood Falls and its deep underground ecosystem could provide clues about finding life on other planets.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
A camp set up near Blood Falls.Wikimedia Commons
A grotto in an iceberg near Taylor Glacier, from the Terra Nova expedition.Wikimedia Commons
“Dust” of iron from Blood Falls.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Taylor Glacier seen from Blood Falls.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Red, slushy snow from Blood Falls.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
People standing in front of Blood Falls. Wikimedia Commons
A helicopter touching down at Lake Bonney, near Blood Falls.Wikimedia Commons
The red color of Blood Falls was a mystery for more than a century. Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
According to researchers, Taylor Glacier is the “coldest known glacier to have persistently flowing water.”Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
The valley near Blood Falls and Taylor Glacier was named Taylor Valley.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Thomas Griffith Taylor returned from the Terra Nova expedition with both a glacier and a valley named for him. Other members of the expedition, unfortunately, never made it home.Wikimedia Commons
More briny dust from Blood Falls.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Taylor Glacier circa 1958.Wikimedia Commons
As water at Blood Falls freezes, it simultaneously releases heat, therefore allowing liquid water melting form the glacier to pour out with its briny color.Arield Waldman/Flickr Creative Commons
Blood Falls as seen from above.Wikimedia Commonsa
Researchers at Taylor Glacier.Wikimedia Commons
A visitor to Taylor Glacier in 1958.Wikimedia Commons

Specks Of Dust From Blood Falls

The Surprising Story Behind Antarctica’s Blood Falls, The Glacier That Seems To Be Gushing Blood
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The Discovery And Initial Mystery Of Blood Falls

The Terra Nova Expedition, a.k.a. the British Antarctic Expedition, was a mission led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott between 1910 and 1913 with the primary goal of being the first to reach the geographic South Pole. That said, the expedition also sought to conduct geological and biological research.

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