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....
The glaciers that do not feed the large ice caps have lost more ice in the past 20 years than the Greenland or Antarctic ice caps. As a result, they have also contributed to nearly 20 percent of the rise in sea level per annum. Picture: Michael Wenger The global ice...
This is how the Arctic sea ice likes to be seen: a vast white area that is connected. The white reflects the sun’s rays and thus protects the ice from high temperatures. But more and more often a dark layer of soot covers the white splendour. Picture: Michael...
