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Stories tagged with: Antarctica
Antarctica Scientists Discover Space Mineral Never Before Observed in Nature
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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/antarctica-scie...
A research team that included experts from the US, Japan and South Korea, have discovered a new mineral, called "Wassonite", buried in a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969. The meteorite, which may have broken off an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is 4.5 billion years old.
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Antarctica Continues To Break Apart
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http://overheating.blogspot.com/2008/03/antarctica-continues...
A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has broken away from Antarctica in what scientists believe is further evidence of a warming climate. To put that into perspective the Isle of Man is about 221 square miles!
Satellite images suggest that some of the adjoining ice shelf will collapse in the next few days or weeks. The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s. Six ice shelves in the same part of the continent have already been lost, says the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Professor David Vaughan of BAS said: "Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened.
"I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly. The ice shelf is hanging by a thread - we'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be."
Jim Elliott, who was on board the plane, said he had never seen anything like it before.
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Time Lapsed - One Year In Antarctica
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http://timelapsed.blogspot.com/2008/03/time-lapsed-one-year-...
You will at least get an idea of what it would be like to visit... I don't know though I really think that sideways sun might just drive some people nuts!
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Submitted by 1greenthumb
47 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours agoTags: Antarctica, time lapse, Northern Lights, amazing
Lake Vostok - Under Ice
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http://www.picable.com/Nature/Water/Lake-Vostok.19007
Lake Vostok is a fairly large lake and its area is about 15000 km². What makes it unique is that the lake is under 4km of ice. This is an overhead view of the lake.
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Submitted by Northerndwarf
59 months, 3 weeks, 22 hours agoTags: Antarctica, ice, Lake, Vostok, underground
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