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 ...
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...
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.
Scientists Drill Ice Core–2 Miles Down–Extracting 1.2 Million Years …
Jan 19, 2025 · They drilled down almost two miles to extract 2.8-km of ice core, reaching the actual bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The air bubbles trapped inside the ice are “like tiny time...
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.
1.2-million-year-old ice pulled up from under Antarctica
Jan 9, 2025 · At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters)...
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.
Ice cores and climate change - British Antarctic Survey
Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Most ice core records come from Antarctica and Greenland, and the longest ice cores extend to 3km in depth. The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 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.