Scientists get ice core samples of glaciers to study these gases before the ice melts. See the Let’s Explore the Cores article in this issue to learn more about ice cores and how they give us ...

Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

The Ice Core Excavator (ICE) is an undergraduate-student designed payload for a commercial quadcopter drone. ICE is a tool for climate scientists studying snow algae, black carbon, and other surface ...

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He has made numerous trips to both the North Pole and South Pole to retrieve ice cores—cylinders of ice that are drilled from the depths of glaciers and ice sheets. When studied, ice cores can ...

Inside the drilling tent at Skytrain Ice Rise, engineers and scientists separating the inner barrel of the drill from the outer barrel between drilling runs. Ice cores provide first documentation ...

by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet which is more than 1.2 million years old. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by ...