By Manuel Ansede
(El País)
Humanity got wind of the existence of the planet Uranus in 1781, even before that of a sixth continent on Earth, Antarctica, with its cyclopean ice cliffs, whose discovery, albeit late, in 1820, exalted the fantasies of writers.
Edgar Allan Poe imagined a road riddled with bloodthirsty savage tribes.
Jules Verne, meanwhile, fantasized about a magnetic sphinx at the very South Pole.
And Lovecraft located the Mountains of Madness there, populated by voracious fetid creatures.
Dutch glaciologist Veronica Tollenaar, born 30 years ago in Amsterdam, shares the equally stunning true version as she walks relaxed through the heart of deep Antarctica.
Under the blanket of snow, says the researcher, there are neither monsters nor traces of forgotten civilizations, but space rocks from other worlds, which could contain signs of extraterrestrial life.
The most anticipated news - humans aren't the only ones in the universe…
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