Time Flies
Planes and ships, tractors and skis, ponies and sled dogs, and even a hot air balloon: All manner of transportation has been tried and used...
Month : November 2022
Seeing the Forest For the Trees
Paleontologists head to the hills in Antarctica to recover plant fossils. Among their amazing finds are the second largest fossil forests ever found in Antarctica...
Test Flight
Every austral summer a mix of different aircraft land at McMurdo Station. A possible addition to that Antarctic ad hoc fleet may some day include...
Lifeblood of a Glacier
The name alone evokes a certain mystery on a continent riddled with enigmas. Blood Falls, however, is slowly giving up its secrets. A team of...
Master Plan
McMurdo Station was never meant to be the New York City of Antarctica. It was established in the 1950s as a naval airfield. It continued...
Search for Ancient Ice
For more than a quarter-century, David Marchant, a Boston University professor, has been exploring the Transantarctic Mountains, methodically piecing together the story of the landscape...
Location, Location…Relocation
Halley VI Research Station looks a giant centipede, its eight segments in frozen stasis on the Brunt Ice Shelf. The design of the space-age-looking Antarctic...
Going Deep
The South Pole is a very cold place, with an average annual temperature of around minus 50 degrees Celsius. Even the ice is especially cold...
Additional Safety Check
An instrument used by New Zealand scientists and their collaborators to study sea ice in the polar regions may prove to be a useful piece...
Underground Movement
There is an underground movement underway in Antarctica. This particular movement doesn’t involve radical political parties or fringe music festivals, though the idea of super...
