Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica

Ferrar Glacier begins at Taylor Dome and flows toward the Ross Sea. North of it, an unusual feature known as “Blood Falls” stains ice bright red in one of Antarctica’s rare dry valleys.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Allen Pope (National Snow and Ice Data Center) for being the first person to solve the puzzler.

Published June 23, 2013
Data acquired February 9, 2013

Source:

EO-1 > ALI