The car is the main means of transportation in Arctic communities, along with the snowmobile. But ice and snow impede progress there just as they do here, and common snow removal methods create the same problems. Image: Dr Michael Wenger Ice and snow often determine...
Actually, researchers should cheer at the sight of dozens of blows in the morning light off the Greenland coast, because they mean many whales. But too many whales are death to the schools of fish, as the study here shows. Image: Dr Michael Wenger Whales are an...
No time to freeze: Fragile ctenophores, or comb jellies, floating under the ice and catching small creatures such as crabs and fish larvae with their sticky tentacles. On the east coast of Greenland, a thick layer of ice forms on the sea every winter. Shipping comes...
The drilling site, where the research teams suspect ice up to 1.5 million years old, is called “Little Dome C” because it is located about 40 kilometres from the Italian-French research station Concordia on Dome C. It is just under 1,640 km to the South...
The VIPER is a mobile robot that NASA is using to advance the search for water on the moon for future lunar missions. The rover measures 1.5×1.5×2.5 metres and weighs around 430 kilos. A direct X-band via the Deep Space Network connects the robot to Earth....
