Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice ...
Jan 9, 2025 · An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1.2 million years old.
Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken
Jan 9, 2025 · An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 kilometers) ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent’s bedrock. The core represents a chronological register ...
Scientists Drill Ice Core–2 Miles Down–Extracting 1.2 Million Years …
Jan 19, 2025 · Antarctica ice core – PNRA / IPEV via SWNS. ... The ice core from Beyond EPICA will offer unprecedented insights into the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, a remarkable period between 900,000 and 1.2 ...
Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start
Aug 15, 2017 · Scientists announced today that a core drilled in Antarctica has yielded 2.7-million-year-old ice, an astonishing find 1.7 million years older than the previous record-holder.
Antarctic ice core could help solve an ancient climate mystery
Jan 11, 2025 · An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample...
Scientists Unearth 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core in Antarctic …
Jan 9, 2025 · An international team of scientists has achieved a groundbreaking feat in climate research by drilling a core of ice that could hold secrets dating back more than a million years.
Scientists Drill 1.7 Miles Into Antarctic Ice, Revealing 1.2 Million ...
Jan 10, 2025 · Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the...
Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past
Jan 12, 2025 · A team retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter) ice core from Antarctica that's nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end-to-end.
Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice
Jan 9, 2025 · The ice cores are carried into the local Ice core storage cave at Antarctica. Credit©PNRA. The ice drilling achievement was made possible through the extraordinary collaboration of various European research institutions and the dedicated work of scientists and logistical personnel in the field over the last ten years.
Oldest Unbroken Record of Earth's Climate Pulled From Antarctic Ice ...
Jan 14, 2025 · A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years. Laid horizontally, the entire ice core's 2,800-meter (9,186-foot) length could extend across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, and then some.