Antarctica historic milestone, successful drilling of a 2.800 meters long ice core, more than 1.2 million years old Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:21 UTC Full article ...
We use the physical and chemical properties of the ice core to precisely date the radar layers. Our team collected nine firn cores over a range of low to high accumulation sites this season. The drill ...
the project to obtain the core. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer over four years in average ...
Barbante also directs the Polar Science Institute at Italy's National Research Council.The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went about 1.7 miles ...