Tag: South Pole
Vincent Colliard, the fastest man at the South Pole – Munich
To understand what makes Vincent Colliard tick, all you have to do is listen to him talk about the honeymoon. With his wife Caroline he asked himself: cocktails on the…
High-energy neutrinos discovered for the first time in the Milky Way – Knowledge
From Andrew Jaeger Away from street lamps and neon signs, the Milky Way can be seen in the sky on a clear night. A fuzzy band of stars is what…
Water under Antarctica: huge saltwater basin discovered – knowledge
Researchers have identified a huge underground reservoir of water near the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The liquid water is in a sedimentary basin that is up to 1.3 kilometers…
Antarctic Sea Ice Mystery – Knowledge
It’s a remarkable summer that Antarctica has just come through. In February, the sea ice around the continent shrank to 1.9 million square kilometers, the smallest area since 1978, when…