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An international team of scientists has found the deepest place on land. This discovery is reported by Nature Geoscience.
According to the authors of the study, the deepest place on land located in East Antarctica under the Denman Glacier. Received data should help scientists assess the impact of climate change to the southern continent.
To determine how much ice is in the canyon, scientists analyzed several parameters: data from radars, mass and information on the movement of ice. It turned out that the canyon has depth 3.5 kilometers below sea level. There are no places below this point. The earth.
Earlier, scientists from Germany made an unexpected discovery: the brain polar explorers who have been in Antarctica for more than 14 months are significantly decreased in volume.
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