Antarctica

Home References Skywatching A Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will occur on May 15-16, 2022 and will look similar to this view of one from July 2018. Here's everything you need to know about the event. (Image credit: ESA/CESAR–M.Castillo) Editor's note: The total phase of the Super Flower Blood Moon…

Slip 'n' Slide — Scientists have finally found Antarctica’s missing groundwater. Gregory Barber, wired.com - May 7, 2022 10:06 am UTC De Agostini Picture Library | Getty Images Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though…

Thousands of emperor penguins waddling around Antarctica have a stalker: A yellow rover tracking their every move. ECHO is a remote-controlled ground robot that silently spies on the emperor penguin colony in Atka Bay. The robot is being monitored by the Single Penguin Observation and Tracking observatory. Both the SPOT observatory, which is also remote-operated…

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(CNN)Hidden deep below the ice sheet that covers Antarctica, scientists have discovered a massive amount of water. The groundwater system, found in deep sediments in West Antarctica likely to be the consistency of a wet sponge, reveals an unexplored part of the region and may have implications for how the…

Ice streams in Antarctica carry ice from the continent’s centre to the ocean, and there appears to be a huge amount of water buried beneath one, which may affect its flow Earth 5 May 2022 By Leah Crane View of the research team’s field camp on the Whillans ice stream,…

Home News Geophysicist Chloe Gustafson and mountaineer Meghan Seifert install an instrument that measures electromagnetic fields on the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica. (Image credit: Kerry Key, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) Beneath a fast-flowing ice stream in West Antarctica, scientists have discovered a vast aquifer brimming with seawater…

Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to just shy of 0 degrees Celsius, thanks to a combination of geothermal warmth, intense friction…

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style UK Politics World Royal Science Weather Weird History Obituaries Nature Sunday A VAST, hidden reservoir has been detected deep underneath an Antarctic ice stream for the first time, with…

A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica may have erupted, triggering 85,000 earthquakes in the area. Research stations reported the swarm of earthquakes as early as August 2020. They lasted for several months, subsiding in November of that same year. Since then, researchers have been looking for the cause behind the…