The crust is a few miles thick, yet we cannot dig through it. Why? What percent of Earth's total volume is the crust? How thick are tectonic plates? How deep is the Antarctic Ocean? How deep is the Yellowstone volcano? How deep is the ocean around Antarctica?
Still, its geologic patterns resemble a variety of places we're familiar with on Earth, from the ancient, flood-scarred and eroded lands of Washington state to the deserts of Death Valley and permafrost of Antarctica. Of course, that doesn't mean that a manned mission to Mars is akin to ...
In 2011, A BBC film crew, which was diving in the waters around Little Razorback Island near Antarctica's Ross Archipelago, actually recorded the formation of a brinicle, which took about five to six hours. The Danger of Underwater Icicles A brinicle forms when heavier-than-water brine ...
42,43. Although the basic dynamics of MoV and their associated teleconnections are reasonably well understood44, the complexities of their interactions and their collective impact on precipitation have only been explored in relatively simple and typically linear...
jobs pupils can volunteer to do during the school year links to the goal ofpeace, justice and strong institutions. On Antarctica Day, an assembly on understanding the impact of global warming on Antarctica and the importance of preserving the ice in Antarctica links to the goal of life ...
My experience in Svalbard was one of the best trips of my life. In my opinion much more fun, more beautiful, and more interesting than my trip to Antarctica (which was also mind-blowing, and holds a special place in my heart, and many others, because it’s a visit to their 7th and...
like the much-discussed micro-plastics. Despite how much has been learned about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean over the past few centuries, there is still so much more to learn. Regular, in-situ observations are essential to understanding how the ecosystem functions so that we might be able...
And with so much that’s gone wrong in the world lately – from climate disasters to the pandemic – many of us want to know how to be a responsible tourist. As professional travel writers who’ve traveled for decades – everywhere fromAntarcticatoZanzibar– we’ve tried to become more res...
(B, D) and on paved smooth surfaces than on rough grass surfaces. For rain, however, we expect that the mobilization will increase considerably if a layer of water forms on the surface to flush the trash away. Such a layer did not form during our experiments and will be explored in ...
You will need all afternoon to fully explore The Field Museum. We explored all of the exhibits when we visited and the Antarctic Dinosaurs was definitely our favorite. I never knew that there were dinosaur fossils under all that ice. Antarctica is on our bucket list so it was really interest...