The New Grand Canyon

    Just as the title of this article states, there is, in fact, a new Grand Canyon. According to NPR, the new Grand Canyon was discovered under Greenland about two weeks ago by Jonathan Bamber from the University of Bristol. He had tried to look and study the bedrock underneath Greenland’s ice by pulling data from research planes. The data he used spanned the course of 40 years, and since the planes were using radar, it wasn't too hard to discover the gigantic chasm underneath Greenland. The chasm itself is almost twice as long as the Grand Canyon, and appears to have been carved out by river waters before Greenland was covered in ice. Yet, it’s been covered up for so long because Greenland has been covered with ice for almost 4 million years.

    This discovery presents many new opportunities for scientists. It’s speculated that we’ll be able to discover many new species only found in the chasm. If you think about it, we may even be able to find out new things about trenches and how they formed. Just give science time, and I’m sure we’ll see the chasm in the news once again.

- Kevin Brown