In the icy depths of Antarctica one of the strangest and most surprising phenomena of the planet occurs. It is an ice column that descends slowly from the frozen surface of the ocean to the sea floor, freezing everything it finds in its path. Scientists know it as the “finger of death”. What is the finger of death? The phenomenon was first recorded in 2011 by a group of marine biologists, who observed how a kind of ice tube formed under the Anta…
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In the icy depths of Antarctica one of the strangest and most surprising phenomena of the planet occurs. It is an ice column that descends slowly from the frozen surface of the ocean to the sea floor, freezing everything it finds in its path. Scientists know it as the “finger of death”. What is the finger of death? The phenomenon was first recorded in 2011 by a group of marine biologists, who observed how a kind of ice tube formed under the Anta…