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A new study led by Jochen Knies from the iC3 Polar Research Hub has found worrying signs that climate change may be ...
In another great leap in space exploration, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched the Fram2 Mission, the first-ever human spaceflight to orbit Earth over its polar regions. The mission ...
The Arctic Ocean’s pristine white ice cap, a defining feature of our planet ... the ice extent typically fell below current ...
Illustrated with the author’s own photographs, this “hair-raising” book charts a 4,300-mile trip across the polar ice cap in a helicopter with a maximum range of only 300 miles.
Current ice cap data are gathered by satellite and submarines, which can show the overall span of the Arctic ice melt, but these projections are not sufficient to provide an accurate estimate of ...
The left-hand panel shows the surface topography of Mars’s south pole, with the outline of the south polar cap in black ... inferred subglacial water. The ice in the region is around 1500 ...
A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...
Martin Vargic created the map to depict the planet with sea levels around 260ft (79m) higher than they are today Current coastlines are shown using a dotted line and the areas that will be ...
YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel ... functions from the current oceanographic research vessel, Mirai, which was limited to operating in ice-free areas. At 128 meters from bow ...