Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula.South Pole Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Geographic South Pole is the point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface of the...
On the map of the world, Antarctica is a land like no other. It has some of the most intense weather on Earth, and it is covered by an ice sheet that is over a mile thick in some places. The continent is surrounded by the Southern Ocean, which is home to a diverse range of mari...
I unzip the tent door a little so I can see where on the scale of difficult to impossible the day’s trek will be. I close the zipper on a mercury thermometer stuck outside, noting its temperature so I will be able to report the reading at breakfast. The computer is now cabled to ...
Zoom in on the India-Antarctica connection. (a) Original satellite mode LCS-1, (b) RTP corrected satellite model. Both data sets are represented at 5 km height. All data sets are rotated back to 200 Ma. Semi-transparent anomalies indicate aeromagnetic anomalies on the continental margin. ...
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old, allowing them to better understand ice formation and loss at the poles. It’s also the first weather satellite to be placed in an early morning orbit, allowing it to use the long shadows cast by the sun on objects on Earth’s surface to gather more information than a satellite in ...
A good example of the "I don't know what it is and my opinion is as good as anyone else's so I can make up what I want instead of making any effort to find out" school of thought. You can see this on Google maps street viewhere. ...
cover unexplored regions and contribute therefore a large amount of new data to the Antarctic geological research.Old lithospheric boundaries between the Archaen Craton, the Grunehogna Province, and a Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic mobile belt, the Maudheim Province, were be interpreted on the basis...
Antarctica is often perceived as the last pristine continent on Earth. Such remote regions, which are assumed to have very low levels of AMR due to limited human activity, represent potential model environments to understand the mechanisms and interactions underpinning the early stages of evolution, ...
Ammonia volatilized from penguin excreta is a significant nitrogen source in Antarctic ecosystems, influencing climate through new particle formation (NPF). Freeze-thaw events can trigger ammonia emissions, but their impact on penguin-derived ammonia is