An Airborne Look Through the Ice
Though researchers at McMurdo Station have been studying the Ross Ice Shelf for decades, the seafloor beneath it largely remains a mystery. Scientists with the...
Category : Ice and Snow
Getting to the Bottom of SPICECORE
The South Pole Ice Core project, known more succinctly as SPICECORE, wrapped up its two-year drilling effort at the South Pole in late January, having...
Little Pieces of Outer Space on the Frozen Continent
The Antarctic ice is home to stuff “not of this Earth.” Each year, scientists travel to remote sections of the frozen continent to look for...
Capturing a Collapse
Not much remains of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, but what is left can teach scientists a lot about how mighty masses of ice fall...
Ancient Ice Levels
Today, a massive sheet of ice covers nearly all of West Antarctica, but it hasn’t always been that way. Over the past few hundred thousand...
Dating The East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is written in stones along the Transantarctic Mountains. Over the past two years, researchers ventured to remote...
Circumnavigating the Pole Hole
In January, researchers went for a more than 750-kilometer drive around the South Pole. The team followed the arc of the 88th parallel for a...
IceBridge Flies High
In late 2017, a specially modified airplane contracted by NASA crisscrossed Antarctica, mapping the ice below and filling in a data gap left by a...
Buried Treasure
A team of researchers has brought home samples of some of the oldest ice ever discovered, more than twice as old as most previous samples....
The First Wave of the “Thwaites Invasion”
The U.S. and U.K.-funded International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) officially kicked off its science field research in January, when four researchers and their support teams...
