U-Boot findet unbekannte Strukturen unter der Antarktis, verliert dann den Kontakt und verschwindet

Ah well hopefully it’s a cool psy op at least

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> Ran [the unmanned sub] saw strange things then vanished. Using sonar, Ran mapped 54 square miles of ice underside beneath Dotson Ice Shelf. The maps revealed flat plateaus, terraced steps, and teardrop-shaped pits, all carved by basal melt, melting that attacks the ice from below.

> In the east and center, Ran saw icy terraces stacked like steps, while the west looked smoother, with channels and scooped depressions. None of these terraces or teardrop pits show up on satellite images, so they had remained completely hidden until Ran’s mission.

[They then sent the sub on an unmanned and uncontactable mission further under the shelf. The sub didn’t return.]

So basically: basalt melt created „structures“ from the melting ice (likely due to global warming) and they wanted to know more and sent the sub on a dangerous mission to find out more, but the sub didn’t make it back.

If anyone actually reads the article, it says that the submarine would communicate by surfacing at specific points to drop off data. The remote submarine didn’t appear where it should have been, and they had no way of knowing what happened because it doesn’t send communications up to the surface. It was mapping cool terrain features and ice shelves down there according to the article. The only piece you could even say sounds weird is they described one part of the area they mapped as looking like steps. The researchers said it could be a mechanical failure, or maybe it crashed into an ice shelf and was unable to recover. Clickbait title.