Ariel Waldman

So when you're talking about Antarctica, you're talking about a huge area.

And so whether it's talking about climate change or different things happening in it, something that's going to be happening, for instance, in California is going to be very different from something that's happening in New York.

And the same is true in Antarctica.

So the ice there is up to three miles thick in a lot of locations.

At the highest locations.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So it can get super thick and it covers 98% of the continent.

So you're right.

I mean, it is the majority of the continent.

But the Dry Valleys is the largest patch of Antarctica that's not fully covered in snow and ice.

And it's not because of climate change.

It's actually because there's a mountain range that is holding back

that massive ice sheet from entering that area.

And so it's this unique area where it's very Mars-like.

You can walk on the continent itself that's otherwise shrouded in all of that ice.

And then, yeah, you've got little speckles of like glaciers and frozen lakes that come into the area, but you don't have the ice sheet just covering everything.

Yeah.

So as the ice moves throughout Antarctica, it grinds it.