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Sassy-irish-lassy t1_ja5l64l wrote

Did anybody read this article at all? The OP was not asking this as a question, that's the title of the article, and the article discusses everything people in this thread are saying.

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agate_ t1_ja6xblq wrote

The best bit is that nobody is giving the right answer, and even the article only hints at it:

There are a few places in Antarctica where ice slowly evaporates due to very low snowfall and high winds. This forms regions of clear blue ice, and the ice sheet flows toward these regions. Any meteorites that fall elsewhere on the ice sheet get carried to the blue ice zones where the ice evaporates leaving the meteorites behind on the surface. The meteorites build up to very high concentrations over thousands and thousands of years.

So the Antarctic meteorite hunters aren’t just going there because fresh meteorites are easy to spot, they’re there because all the meteorites that fell over a huge area for thousands of years are concentrated in one spot.

https://caslabs.case.edu/ansmet/

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PeakFuckingValue t1_ja6znqi wrote

Wow that's incredible science! Genius level shit figuring that out. And thank you for posting this. I've been reading every single comment cock-eyed because they don't even sound confident in their own answers let alone researched.. ridiculous comment section.

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mangalore-x_x t1_ja6tnub wrote

Reading an article? On Reddit? Nobody told me that was a thing! /s

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lt_dan_zsu t1_ja7my22 wrote

Redditors? Reading an article they're commenting on? You have too much faith in this platform.

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xxDankerstein t1_jaa097d wrote

If I wanted to read the article myself, I wouldn't need to go to Reddit to have someone do the work for me...

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ImTheTrashiest t1_ja61luj wrote

Because of the way this post is formatted, it appears as if OP asked a question and simply used a picture that, as we have come to find out, is apparently a linked article. At least on mobile.

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zeeblecroid t1_ja7thdg wrote

If redditors see a question mark in a post title they assume there can't possibly be a link involved, even by the usual standards of people being unwilling to go past a headline.

Every single post in this sub where the title's a question gets the same reaction.

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hagfish t1_ja8icj9 wrote

The article doesn't mention the other 'why', which is 'why are there so many people combing Antarctica for 'meteorites' at all? The answer is that China has sent dozens of 'meteorite hunting' expeditions to Antarctica over the years. In other news, Antarctica also has large fossil fuel and mineral reserves, but - no - it's definitely the space fragments they're looking for...

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