CNN News: 新發(fā)現(xiàn)陸地最低點

 
10 Second Trivia. What body of water is located along the border between Israel and Jordan? The Dead Sea, The Sea of Galilee, The Gulf of Aqaba, of the Red Sea. It's the salty Dead Sea that's between Israel and Jordon and it has the lowest elevation on Earth's surface.
 
10秒快速問答。什么水域位于以色列和約旦的邊界上?死海，加利利海，亞喀巴灣還是紅海？答案是位于以色列和約旦之間的死海海，它是地球表面海拔最低的地方。
 
And though researchers say they found a place that's considerably lower than that setting a new record for the deepest point on land, you can't really visit it and you can't really even see it. The Deadman Glacier is located in Eastern Antarctica. Glaciologists at the University of California were mapping it out using new technology. They were combining radar measurements, satellite information, and snow accumulation data and they say this allowed them to locate a valley that's hidden underneath the ice sheet.
 
盡管研究人員表示，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個比陸地最深點紀(jì)錄低得多的地方，但你不能真正去那里，甚至不能真正看到它。死亡冰川位于南極洲東部。加利福尼亞大學(xué)的冰川學(xué)家正在用新技術(shù)繪制出地圖。他們綜合了雷達(dá)測量數(shù)據(jù)、衛(wèi)星信息和積雪數(shù)據(jù)，他們說這使他們能夠找到一個隱藏在冰蓋下的山谷。
 
The trough is reportedly about 62 miles long and 12 and a half miles wide but here's the kicker. It's deep. Researchers say it plunges two miles below sea level which it would make it more than a mile deeper than the bottom of the Dead Sea.
 
據(jù)報道，這個水槽大約有62英里長，12英里半寬，但問題在于。它非常深。研究人員表示，它會下降到海平面以下兩英里，這將使它比死海底部深一英里多。
 
Of course the ocean's deepest trenches are much lower than this but what we're talking about is the lowest point on land and the Antarctic trough apparently has no ocean water. Scientists say it's filled with ice that flows toward the Antarctic coast. They're hopeful that their research will help scientists study the continent for decades to come.
 
當(dāng)然，海洋最深的海溝要比這低得多，但我們現(xiàn)在談?wù)摰氖顷懙厣献畹忘c，南極的海溝顯然沒有海水。科學(xué)家們說，它充滿了流向南極海岸的冰。他們希望研究將有助于科學(xué)家在未來幾十年研究非洲大陸。