The Norwegian Troll station is located in the Gjelsvik mountains in the Dronning Maud Land. Image: Trine Lise Sviggum Helgerud / Norsk Polarinstitutt Near mountain ranges, multi-millennia-old ice resurgences are home to active ecosystems never before recorded. The...
Solar eclipses are a natural form of dimming Earth. But it lasts only a few minutes, whereas the idea of an artificial dimming would be a rather long-term affair. (Photo: Michael Wenger) In some parts of the world, the sun has been blazing down from the sky for months...
The network of antennas operated by KSAT is located at a total of 25 sites. This allows signals from space to be picked up anywhere and relayed to appropriate destinations on Earth, such as NOAA’s SWFO mission center. Image: KSAT Auroras are a dreamlike magical...
Nasa’s video shows how sea ice expands widely starting in June, nearly doubling Antarctica’s ice-covered area before melting again. It turns out that the latter proceeds faster than sea-ice formation. Video: Nasa Looking at the development of Antarctic sea...