Antarctica historic milestone, successful drilling of a 2.800 meters long ice core, more than 1.2 million years old

Scientists Drilled Into Antarctic Ice to Find 1.2 Million Years of Climate History

Scientists in East Antarctica are about to get a peek into the Earth’s climate history dating back 1.2 million years thanks to freshly drilled ice core samples. The cores just might provide us with reams of data on the fluctuations in the Earth’s climate, including tons of information on periods of extreme cooling that impacted early humans. Ice core samples are little frozen time capsules. They preserve ancient atmospheric gases like carbon dio…

Antarctica historic milestone, successful drilling of a 2.800 meters long ice core, more than 1.2 million years old

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet which is more than 1.2 million years old.

The extraction of a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctica, after making a tunnel of almost three kilometers deep into the mother rock of the white continent, could shed light on the evolution of climate on Earth from the very beginning of the planet. The data allow us to obtain a continuous record of the history of our climate, for a million years ago and even further in the past.

University of Manitoba - What can the longest continuous ice core record tell us about climate change? A UM scientist is finding out

Scientists have discovered the longest continuous ice core record of past climate - estimated at more than 1.2 million years old.From a remote site in Antarctica, an international research team in. . .

Record broken in Antarctica: European researchers have extracted ice over a million years old

In a jaw-dropping feat, European scientists have pulled off something incredible: they’ve managed to extract ice that’s more than 1.2 million years old from the Antarctic ice sheet. This smashes the previous record of 800,000 years, giving us a rare peek into Earth’s ancient climate. Not only is this a big win for science, but it’s also loaded with data that could help us better understand past atmospheric conditions and what they mean for today…

Ancient Ice Core from Antarctica May Reveal Climate Mysteries from 1.2 Million Years Ago

A million-year-old ice core from Antarctica holds crucial climate data to explain Earth's past and human evolution