If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a washing machine in sub-zero temperatures, this video might be the closest you’ll get to experiencing it.
PhD student Austin Carter doesn’t actually want to dazzle people, he just wants to show off the dazzling footage he captured in Antarctica as he made an incredible discovery. check it out:
Carter and the research team from the Center for Ancient Ice Exploration (COLDEX) went to Mount Allen in East Antarctica in December 2022 to conduct a series of studies aimed at improving our understanding of the Earth’s climate.
The five-year mission is designed to help scientists understand the evolution of Earth’s weather systems and what may happen in the future.
Experts drilled various ice cores, which are cylindrical samples of ice that can be removed for study, within the East Antarctic ice sheet and contain the oldest glaciers on record.
Apparently they had enough land to cover on the southernmost continent, so the team used radar and GPS surveys to identify potential sites for them to take a closer look.
Austin Carter’s short clip left social media users in awe. (storytelling)
Scientists say that despite the help of technology, the first phase of the program is still like looking for a needle in a haystack, focusing on an area about half of Germany.
They traveled to East Antarctica with the goal of understanding how the region is responding to global warming, such as how sensitive the ice sheets are to higher levels of greenhouse gases, and how the ice sheets respond to a warming climate.
Scientists can analyze air bubbles in glacial ice to better understand Earth’s climate because they can only record what happened 800,000 years ago through another ice core drilled 20 years ago.
Climate researcher and COLDEX director Edward Brook discussed his hopes for the 2022 expedition with The Antarctic Sun, saying: “Our goal is to extend the ice core record of climate change as far back as possible. Far away.
The clip shows viewers what it’s like to travel 93 meters below the surface. (storytelling)
“If we could push it back to three or four million years ago, or even earlier, that would be very important,” he added.
While Bruker’s goals may have been a little high, COLDEX and the research team did succeed.
That’s because they discovered what may be the oldest ice on Earth after dropping a camera 93 meters underground and letting it hurtle into a small hole.
Carter recorded the incredible video, in which he said the camera “moves along the drilled hole in the completed ice core,” and explained that he wanted the video to educate viewers about the research’s progress.
The Michigan-born student shared the video on TikTok, explaining: “You are now entering the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The team finally reached the bottom of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in search of the world’s oldest ice. (storytelling)
“We drilled an ice core at Mount Allen, where we previously found the oldest ice ever discovered – 2.7 million years old! Through this ice core, we hope to find even older ice to Learn more about the fundamental properties of our climate system.
This extraordinary footage takes viewers on a journey beneath Antarctica, through history, as it crashes deeper and deeper into the bottom of the ice core.
Not only does it give you a little spin, it also shows the different colors and textures of ice from thousands of years ago, so researchers really struck gold here.
Throwing cameras into objects seems to produce some pretty cool results – so why not see what this guy found when he dropped a camera into the deepest cave in America or the most dangerous pier in the world?
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