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Antarctica’s icy ecosystems reveal how frozen landscapes can sustain odd forms of life.
Set in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, Antarctica’s glacial and icy ecosystems reveal how frozen landscapes can sustain surprising forms of life. Explorer Ariel Waldman investigates cryoconite holes and hidden biospheres like Blood Falls, uncovering how extremophiles survive in punishing conditions and what they may teach us about potential life on icy moons beyond Earth.
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Life Under the Ice Preview
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Set in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, Antarctica’s glacial and icy ecosystems reveal how frozen landscapes can sustain surprising forms of life. Explorer Ariel Waldman investigates cryoconite holes and hidden biospheres like Blood Falls, uncovering how extremophiles survive in punishing conditions and what they may teach us about potential life on icy moons beyond Earth.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAntarctica is full of secrets.
Things that you can only see at the right scale.
What appears as a motionless surface hides an undercurrent of ecological activity.
There are places here on planet Earth where life can thrive, where we thought nothing could survive.
And that's just really cool.
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 56s | A gruesome-looking sight in Antarctica known as Blood Falls sparks a science mystery. (2m 56s)
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