Poetic License
When poet Jynne Martin learned the National Science Foundation sponsored an Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, she immediately applied for a chance to visit the...
Month : November 2022
A Sticky Problem
A telescope launched 35 kilometers into the stratosphere above Antarctica had a singular mission: to detect the impossibly faint signal from when the universe expanded...
Off Road
Google Street View has gone off road – way off road. The Internet giant recently unveiled its latest batch of panoramic imagery for its Google...
Anatomy of a Deglaciation
One way to understand how Antarctica’s ice will melt – which glaciers will recede when – is to look at how it happened in the...
All Points North
All directions point north from the geographic South Pole. The new 2014 geographic South Pole marker, designed as an equatorial sundial, makes that point abundantly...
Good Things Come in Small Packages
Led by scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, IcePod bundles together a suite of instruments into a capsule designed to provide new details about structures above,...
Historic Moment
A pair of campsites located high on the flanks of an active volcano in Antarctica – once used by British explorers a little more than...
Empowering Educators at the School of Ice
To the casual observer, mid-June may not seem like the ideal time to explore the science of ancient ice. However, last month, as the hot...
Still Rockin’
No, Metallica didn’t play at McMurdo Station, but a dozen local bands rocked in the New Year in Antarctica’s annual musical festival. McMurdo’s 2013 New...
The Dry Valleys Helped Scientists Understand a Wet Mars
The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe. When asked what this water might...
