Antarctica

Caption: Image of Icefin under the sea ice near McMurdo Station captured in 2019. Photo: Rob Robbins, USAP Diver Thwaites Glacier, the largest glacier in West Antarctica, is melting faster in some spots than its shape would at first suggest, new studies show. Why it matters: Thwaites tops the list…

By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Scientists studying Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed on Wednesday. Thwaites, which is roughly the size of…

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by processes under its floating ice shelf that are different than researchers realized. Two papers published in the journal Nature provide a clearer picture of the changes taking place under the glacier, which is the size of…

Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it’s both good and bad news. Using a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the grounding line where ice first…

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AnimalsFewer than 130 sightings have ever been made of the mysterious deep-sea creature. Now a 30-foot-long specimen has been spotted off Antarctica. ByMelissa Hobson Published February 10, 2023 • 5 min read In the ethereal blue glow of the water, a huge shape swept toward them. Around 30 feet long,…

Antarctic cruises are rising in popularity, though 4 Americans recently died on them The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the deaths of four Americans on cruises to Antarctica, highlighting the perils of these increasingly popular cruises. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The Coast Guard and the National…

Ground stations help track the tens of thousands of satellites and other objects in Earth’s orbit and predict where they will be at any given time — a capability known as space situational awareness (SSA). “China adding new satellite ground stations in Antarctica will help it receive data from its…

HELSINKI — China is to construct new ground station facilities to its Zhongshan research base in Antarctica to support satellite data acquisition.  Official space industry newspaper China Space News reported Feb. 2 that a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), a giant state-owned defense and space…

BEIJING: China, only the third country to put a man in space after the Soviet Union and the United States, is to build ground stations in Antarctica to back its network of ocean monitoring satellites, state media said on Thursday (Feb 2). China's global network of ground stations to support…