$23 Million Polar Lab Set To Vanish Into The Arctic

The Tara Foundation unveiled this Thursday, April 24 its polar station: a laboratory ship that will drift with the ice from 2026. This ambitious project will allow us to study, for twenty years, the impact of global warming on Arctic ecosystems.

A floating laboratory unique in the world is about to explore the mysteries of the Arctic, with the spationaut as its sponsor. Tara's polar station, designed to study the Arctic Ocean, was officially named this Thursday in Lorient in the presence of Thomas Pesquet. This ambitious project, compared to a "ice space station", must begin its scientific missions [...] Read more A revolutionary polar station named in Lorient with Thomas Pesquet appear…

Lorient, 24 Apr 2025 (AFP) – Tara Polar Station, a drifting scientific base that must explore the Arctic Ocean in 2026, is to be baptized Thursday in Lorient in the presence of its sponsor, the spationaute Thomas Pesquet. This floating laboratory, in the form of igloo placed on a large buoy, was designed to withstand the pressure of the [...]

The Tara Polar Station is named on Thursday 24 April 2025 in Lorient. It will head the North Pole at the end of May for a series of tests, as explained by Romain Troublé, managing director of the Tara Foundation.

$23 Million Polar Lab Set To Vanish Into The Arctic

A $23 million floating laboratory, the Tara Polar Station, is preparing to set sail across the Arctic ice, aiming to unlock the secrets of polar winters in a time of accelerating climate shifts. Reported by New Scientist in April 2025, this ambitious project draws inspiration from a legendary 19th-century Arctic expedition. From Nansen’s Drift To Tara’s High-tech Odyssey In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, the famed Norwegian explorer, set out aboard the …