I hope they're not in trouble, but --- seriously, reality? This cheap imitation of eighty-year-old fiction is the best you can do?

"The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Their high elevation and youthful Alpine topography, combined with their location on the East Antarctic craton, creates a paradox that has puzzled researchers since the mountains were discovered in 1958..." --- Do I need to draw you guys a picture (from which you will run in screaming mind-blasted madness)?

This fills me with disquieting thoughts about _why_ "all these worlds are yours, except Europa".

Utterly fascinating.

"the Gamburtsev mountains are probably older than 34 million years and were the main centre for ice-sheet growth. Moreover, the landscape has most probably been preserved beneath the present ice sheet for around 14 million years." The Lovecraft jokes are growing less funny all the time.

Robin Bell, blogging the Gamburtsev expedition. I am expecting curiously leathery crinoid fossils any day now.

See them while they last!

Oooh, pictures. "They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths."

BLDGBLOG discovers IceCube