The ice drilling team’s base camp on the Ross Ice Shelf. Below them is a massive meltwater river. Photo: Craig Stevens/NIWA The Ross Ice Shelf, the largest on Earth, is far from having revealed all its secrets. There are still many questions that need to be...
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest in Antarctica and covers an ocean area of about 500,000 square kilometers. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger The waters beneath the numerous ice shelves extending from the Antarctic continent into the Southern Ocean are even more hostile to...
