A really BIG lab freezer
BBC, Sept. 5
Airlifting ice from the Alps
Scientists working in the high French Alps have just completed the first phase of a mission to extract ice from some of the world's most rapidly retreating glaciers. The researchers drilled out samples from deep within a their first target glacier - just below the summit of Mont Blanc.
Their ultimate aim is to ship the ice to Antarctica, creating a long-term store of our planet's most endangered ice and protecting the scientific clues - contained in its frozen bubbles - about our planet's past climate and atmosphere.
Our science reporter Victoria Gill joined the team on the Alpine ice.
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Airlifting ice from the Alps
Scientists working in the high French Alps have just completed the first phase of a mission to extract ice from some of the world's most rapidly retreating glaciers. The researchers drilled out samples from deep within a their first target glacier - just below the summit of Mont Blanc.
Their ultimate aim is to ship the ice to Antarctica, creating a long-term store of our planet's most endangered ice and protecting the scientific clues - contained in its frozen bubbles - about our planet's past climate and atmosphere.
Our science reporter Victoria Gill joined the team on the Alpine ice.
[I've removed the video link because it wasn't working, but the video's embedded in the story. Be prepared to click the Mute button for the 15sec ad you have to wait through to see it.] This entry was originally posted at http://thnidu.dreamwidth.org/1537802.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID or your Dreamwidth ID.
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