The new holes drilled through the Ross Ice Shelf also provide a more general window into the unknown. They thought, well, just because youve got it one year, it doesnt count. Key points: David Wood died of hypothermia after falling into a crevasse during a routine fuel drop Both the Commonwealth Environment Department and his employer were charged over the death The Goddard team was scooped and they knew it. Res. In February 19, 1947, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was the Navy official in charge of a gigantic operation in the Arctic, which we have alluded to as Operation HighJump. If a big storm rolls through and clears away the overlying sea ice, it can then cause this warm water to mix with the cooler, fresher water floating atop the Lazarev sea. Admiral Byrd stated that the North and South Poles are only two of numerous openings in to the facility of the Earth. The Montreal Protocol signed today aims at stopping the deterioration of the ozone layer in the atmosphere thats the layer which shields us from damaging ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. US Navy pilot tells of an Ancient Alien City found in Antarctica. Its been quite fascinating going back, particularly along the Antarctic Peninsula, on various trips. Crutzen, P. J. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Concerns were raised, really, in the 1960s and 70s that substances that we were manufacturing, in particular chlorofluorocarbons the CFCs might put chlorine high into the atmosphere where it could then photocatalytically interact with the ozone and destroy ozone. My name is Richard Stolarksi, and Im a research scientist whos worked on ozone for many years. "The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. HighJump has become a contentious subject among UFO conspiracy theorists, who claim it was a covert US army project to control supposed secret underground Nazi establishments in Antarctica and catch the German Vril flying discs, or Thule mercury-powered spaceship prototypes. The study also used data from the long-running Argo ocean observing program, elephant seals that beam data back to shore, weather stations and decades of satellite images. If you're trying to subscribe with a non-UW email address, please email uwnews@uw.edu for assistance. At 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, one pilots crash pad became a crime scene. Well, the Goddard folks had set quality control software to look at the data automatically as it came back from the satellite and mark as potentially bad data anything that showed levels below a certain amount, and these levels of the prediction of the Antarctic Surveys were below that amount. I was with NASA for 35 years, and I had just come off of a stint as a low-level manager and was just getting back into doing some real science, and we had people who had been taking satellite data of ozone. Now, a team of researchers has bored a hole through the ice and sampled the ocean beneath it. Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles The True Origin of the Flying Saucers. If they live out of town but will be flying out of the Memphis hub, they stay overnight in a crash pad, a cheap place to rent close to the airport. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. All of these changes are puzzle pieces in scientists' understanding of the speed and direction of Antarctica's ice sheet flow. Past the South Pole is the great unknown. A student lowered his camera 93 meters into the ground in Antarctica while collecting ice that's estimated to be over two million years old. BREAKING:Blinken and Lavrov meet on G-20 sidelines in first meeting since Ukraine war began, Life finds a way, the actor Jeff Goldblum playing scientist Ian Malcolm declared in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.. After lowering the sediment corer through the borehole, the scientists then lowered it through about 1,600 feet of seawater below the floating ice shelf. NASA/AP. Brian said the hole was five to ten miles from the South Pole. Under climate change, fresh water from melting glaciers and other sources will make the Southern Oceans surface layer less dense, which might mean fewer polynyas in the future. A recent study, published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, has found that individuals who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, experience greater lung inflammation compared to cigarette smokers and non-smokers. A legend among those in the know was that Adolph Hitler did not die due to a suicide in 1945, but fled to Argentina, to an SS base carved under the ice in New Swabia during the very early 1950s, where he resumed his passion as a painter. Eyring, V. et al. the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Published by Macmillan Journals Limited, 4 Little Essex Street, London, WC2R 3LF. 16th May 1985. The outside temperature recorded was 74 degrees F. His airplane was welcomed by machines of a type he had never actually seen before. Its a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it, Griffiths said. Boom look at it. Molina, M. J. It is Nature Geosci. Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military Ozone is an invisible upper atmospheric gas that protects all forms of life on Earth from most of the Suns damaging radiation, radiation that can cause skin cancer, eye damage and suppression of the immune system. Res. Thank you for visiting nature.com. In 1977, researchers drilled through the ice shelf 300 miles in from its seaward edge (about 80 miles inland from the current holes), and in 2015 a team drilled through the back corner of the ice shelf, 500 miles in from its seaward edge. Munn said his thoughts are on his mother and moving her to a safer neighborhood. Research Scientist - Chemistry Research & Innovation, POST-DOC POSITIONS IN THE FIELD OF Automated Miniaturized Chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling, Ph.D. POSITIONS IN THE FIELD OF Automated miniaturized chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute opens A SENIOR RESEARCHER POSITION IN THE FIELD OF Automated miniaturized chemistry supervised by Prof. Alexander Dmling. Like I said, its pilots. Admiral Richard E. Byrd Encounter With A Lost Civilization in Antarctica On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. What happened on that flight? For years rumors have persisted that on his historic flight to the North Pole, Admiral Byrd flew beyond the Pole into an opening leading inside the Earth. Im pretty sure they aint out here riskin it.. Nature. 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Additional funding is from the NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of Washington and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Causes and Effects of Changes in Stratospheric Ozone: Update 1983 (Natl Acad. This machine generated a powerful jet of hot water, which they used to melt two narrow holes, each a few inches across, more than 1,100 feet down to the bottom of the ice. "ICESat-2 is like putting on your glasses after using ICESat: The data are such high precision that we can really start to map out the lake boundaries on the surface," Siegfried said. Scientic Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 Report No. U.S. News: Latest News, Breaking News, Today's News Stories Updat Press, 1998). We cant see it happening. These lakes fill and drain over and over again in largely mysterious cycles that may influence how fast the ice sheet moves and how and where meltwater reaches the Southern Ocean. You have to remember that the ozone hole story was sort of simple and straightforward, and that CFCs had not been part of our economy for that long and they were not the same as carbon dioxide which is coming from our basic energy generation, so that the regulations that limited the CFCs could be handled by the economy quite easily. In a stroke of scientific luck, a big one appeared for the first time in decades. The biggest known polynyas at that location were in 1974, 1975 and 1976, just after the first satellites were launched, when an area the size of New Zealand remained ice-free through three consecutive Antarctic winters despite air temperatures far below freezing. So, they ultimately wound up corroborating the British Antarctic Surveys story and getting a bit of egg on their faces too. ICESat, however, collected data for only six years. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. In any given year you could have several of these things happen, but unless you get them all, then you dont get a polynya.. 16th May 1985. Letters to Nature, p207. A great many people compare the ozone depletion problem and the climate change problem. Its important to understand these currents, says Stevens, because if we get the circulation wrong, then were getting the melting wrong., The new project could also cast light on some lingering suspicionsthat even though the Ross Ice Shelf seems stable today, it has actually undergone some dramatic collapses in the recent past. The hole in the sea ice offshore of the Antarctic coast as seen by a NASA satellite on Sept. 25, 2017. They claimed that to be the protectors of planet Earth to protect its inhabitants from the scurrilous activities of the power brokers and nefarious government agencies with impure agendas. There are still animals out there that can break the rules that we have written for them.. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing. Some complained we shouldnt use that term, but once you let that term out of the bag, there was no going back. There is a hole presumably allowing a very civilization to dwell inside the world. In order to survive, the organisms would have to feed on floating material from other animals or plants, because it is impossible for plants to photosynthesize in the sunless seawater. Anderson, J. G. et al. So, basically, it was more than an order of magnitude greater than we expected. We have judged it a solved problem even though scientists dont actually expect it to go away for another 80-100 years. Admiral Richard Byrd, rightly or wrongly is now associated with the hollow earth concept because of some comments that were allegedly made and because of a diary that has been disputed. Ocean measurements were also collected by seals swimming under the sea ice with temporary satellite tags, showing normal water conditions in the years that did not have large polynyas.Dan Costa/University of California, Santa Cruz, This study shows that this polynya is actually caused by a number of factors that all have to line up for it to happen, said co-author Stephen Riser, a UW professor of oceanography. The ice holeknown as a polynya in the parlance of sea ice researcherswas likely caused by a powerful cyclone that spun up in Antarcticas Weddell sea before migrating eastward into the Lazarev sea in mid-September 2017, according to research published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. They focused on three areas with good satellite coverage and known active lakes: the boundary between the Mercer and Whillans ice streams in West Antarctica; the lower MacAyeal Ice Stream, also in West Antarctica; and the upper Academy Glacier in East Antarctica. Scientists have discovered two new lakes buried deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature, international weekly journal of science. Scientists will leave sensors in the hole to better understand the long-term changes in the ice, which may have big implications for global sea level. My name is Erik Conway. 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 1925 there was a singular man on a mission to explore desolate lands rarely seen by humans to that time Admiral Richard Byrd. Investigators said they found .223 caliber shell casings at the scene, the kind of bullets used in an AR-15 or other style rifle. 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