What is coming from UNDER the ice in Antarctica?

Anything from Antarctica is weird, right?

Enter the fray, this:

A group of researchers in Antarctica have found strange radio waves coming from below the ice.

According to the results published in the Physical Review Letters, the mysterious radio waves were discovered by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA).

During this experiment, the researchers analyzed signals traveling to Earth using a variety of instruments.

Using balloons to send the instruments up high into the atmosphere, the goal was to gain new understandings of cosmic events throughout the universe.

According to the release, the reason Antarctica was the site of these experiments was due to little to no interference from other radio waves.

However, the researchers found radio waves transmitting from under the ice instead.

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The team compared the signals with those from other detectors like the IceCube experiment and the Pierre Auger Observatory and found nothing, indicating that what they found was not neutrinos but something else entirely. “You have a billion neutrinos passing through your thumb at any moment, but neutrinos don’t actually interact. So, that’s the two-edged sword problem. If we detect them, it means they have traveled all this way without interacting with anything else. We could detect a neutrino coming from the edge of the observable universe,” said Wissel.

Very interesting story and mystery.. students at Penn State are lucky to have Wissel as a professor..