Does Antarctica Have A Hidden Layer Of Meteorites Below Its Surface?

In the category of why-didn't-I think-of-that ideas, Dr. Geoffrey Evatt and colleagues from the University of Manchester struck upon a brilliant hypothesis: that a layer of iron meteories might lurk just below the surface of the Antarctic ice. He's the lead author of a recent paper on the topic published in the open-access journal, Nature Communications. Remote Antarctica makes one of the best meteorite collecting regions on the planet. Space rocks have been accumulating there for millennia pres...