Researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Poland have detected unprecedented anomalies, in their words, in the accumulation of plutonium isotopes in glaciers in the southern hemisphere, specifically in Chile's Patagonia, which may be related to these levels with the accident of a spacecraft. Russian Mars96.
The Mars96 was an amazing project, very ambitious, it was a Martian exploration ship, it cost one orbiter and two landing probes and two penetrators, it was the second heaviest probe ever sent to space, it was an ambitious plan that would have put Russia in the head of Mars exploration, I'm talking about 1996, the year it was launched on November 16, it should have arrived on Mars 10 months later but it turns out that on September 12, 1997 Hey, sorry, it should have arrived on September 12, 1997, but when it was launched there was a failure in the fourth stage of the rocket, which caused the ship to leave Earth's orbit and end up being destroyed 4 hours later in the northwest of the city. from Iquique which is in the north of Chile.
But it disintegrated along a re-entry fall trajectory over Chile and near Bolivia. In the end it seems that remains fell into the sea, but the point is that the fact is that the Probe was carrying plutonium and it caused concern. due to the issue of radioactive contamination, but at the time Russia did nothing, it assured that the Probe had fallen into the sea and that there was no danger of contamination, although there were witnesses who said that fragments of the Probe had fallen in mountain areas .
For its part, the United States did not offer help or send any equipment in search of possible radioactive leaks. Chile, believing that the plutonium had fallen into the sea, did not pay attention to the Witnesses who said that debris had flown over the mainland and that they had been able to also fall on the mountains and in the end nothing was done.
And this is quite curious because it turns out that there is another similar story, that of Cosmos 954, a satellite or spy satellite, there is controversy about that; This satellite was launched by the Soviet Union in 1977 but it had a failure, which ended up causing the nuclear reactor that carried this satellite to separate from the rest of the ship and after a year of orbiting the earth it ended up making a catastrophic re-entry, destroying itself. and spreading its waste, including nuclear waste, over a large sector of northern Canada, an area perhaps even more depopulated than the affected region of Chile, however, an enormous deployment was made by the United States and Canada to recovering all the materials from that satellite and any contaminating elements was a tremendous mission.
Why? The health of a Canadian was more important, if a Canadian lived in that area, than that of a Chilean, I ask the question, although I point out one thing that the case of Chile was in 1997 there was no longer officially cold war and perhaps for the United States the case of the 1977 satellite was much more interesting since it could recover remains of the Soviet ship and study its technology.
These Polish researchers who have published the study note something disturbing, not all the radioactive elements they have found come from the Russian ship and in fact this story of the Russian ship in Chile is a rebound, it is not really what they were looking for, it What happened is that this Russian ship has caused an anomaly within the data they were looking for and it was a very curious case, because the researchers were analyzing something else that was quite worrying.
These researchers wanted to verify how the melting of glaciers can affect the concentration of radioactive elements in areas where glacial sediments accumulate. The idea is simple, glaciers are not pure water, you can drink from them, it is not so Disturbing, yes there are pathogens, it is not advisable, but among other things because it is not good to take ice directly, but in short I say that you can drink them because on top of that they supply the rivers, they are a source of life for the valleys and for the crops in many countries.
The thing is that they are not pure water, in them there are remains that accumulate with each snowfall, from the dust of the deserts to volcanic residues from eruptions anywhere in the world, all these residues from eruptions could be floating in the atmosphere for a long time and of course there are also the various elements that produce human contamination and there are also radioactive elements resulting from natural processes and also human activity.
Here, in addition to the spaceship accident and other spaceship accidents because they are not, these two that I have told you are not the only ones, we must add the atomic tests obviously and accidents at nuclear power plants and any other vehicle or facility. that uses radioactive equipment, the point is that part of those radioactive elements end up in the atmosphere traveling thousands of kilometers with the dust, with the pollen, with the elements, with the smoke from the volcanoes, with all that, they end up in the atmosphere traveling thousands of kilometers until rain or snow causes them to precipitate.
The rain ends up taking these elements to the sea and they end up more or less washed and accumulated in the sea, but when the snow falls on the glaciers what it does is deposit them in the snow layer and so on year after year and when the glacier melts. something that unfortunately we are suffering on a large scale, these substances are concentrating and accumulating in the form of very special sediments, dark sediments that can be seen in the images, they are called cryoconite, they are small, they are small concentrations that concentrate in that way. ice that is melting.
In an ideal world, this sediment would be formed only by desert dust, volcanic waste and organic material, but unfortunately more and more contaminants are found such as heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, even antibiotics and also radioactive elements; and this is dangerous and this is what these scientists were investigating because depending on the amount of pollution it can be an alarm signal for the local ecosystems of those regions since glaciers are often the source of rivers that feed the fields. of Valleys.
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