The first 150 metres of a planned 3000 metre-long #Antarctic ice core has been safely returned to Australia after a successful drilling season for the Million Year Ice Core #MYIC.
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/historic-ice-cores-returned-to-australia/
At this remote outpost, Australians are racing to find the world's oldest ice and unlock the secrets it holds #Antarctica #MYIC
Drilling at Dome C North #Antarctica, about 50 km from Little Dome C, has begun in earnest, to retrieve the most detailed continuous record of how the Earth’s atmospheric composition and climate have changed over centuries.
#MYIC team has a close collaboration with the #BeyondEPICA #OldestIce team which has been working at Little Dome C since 2019. Acquiring multiple ice core records extending beyond 1M years will allow for joint replication and verification.
“Collaborative modelling and radar work indicate that we’re well placed to build on and extend the European results, with an ice core that is older and more highly resolved.”
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/australias-search-for-antarcticas-oldest-ice/
Drilling has begun in Australia’s quest for the oldest, continuous ice core record of Earth’s climate, dating back more than one million years. Australian Antarctic Program scientists are on location at ‘Dome C North’, which ice-flow modelling and radar data shows may contain ice up to two million years old.
Trail-blazing tractor trains on track for million-year-old ice site #MYIC
https://aappartnership.org.au/trail-blazing-tractor-trains-on-track-for-million-year-old-ice-site/
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