Researchers Were Horrified To Learn The Explanation Behind Bloody Snow

Captain John Ross 

Another record of the red snow came from a sea captain in 1818 named Sir John Ross, who thought the snow was made of iron-nickel meteorite. “There were patches or streaks more or less red, and of various depths of tint,” he wrote, “The liquor, or dissolved snow, is so dark a red as to resemble red port wine.” It seemed this sort of thing was happening only every few centuries, but still, the scientists were flummoxed.