An unmanned submersible robot named ‘Ran’ has offered scientists a sneak peek into the mysterious and never-known world existing beneath the Antarctic ice shelves which have been melting in the wake of climate change. The robot, which has cutting-edge sonar, spent 27 days travelling underneath the Dotson Ice Shelf which covers a wide expanse of …
(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Tiny rock fragments trapped in Antarctic ice reveal the oldest known mid-air explosion of an asteroid, dating back 2.5 million years. The Earth’s rocky surfaces bear the scars of countless asteroid and comet impacts, evident in the numerous craters dotting our planet. However, some celestial visitors meet a different fate – …
Previous outbreaks have shown that penguins are highly vulnerable to the disease One king penguin is suspected to have died from bird flu on South Georgia island in the Antarctic region, Guardian reported. If confirmed, it will be the first of the species killed by the highly contagious H5N1 virus in the wild. Researchers have …
The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 sq km (1930 sq miles) of area between 1985 and 2022, according to a study in the journal Nature published on Wednesday, the first full ice-sheet wide estimate of area loss on that scale. This shrinkage reflected the 1,034 gigatonnes (1.034 trillion kg.) of ice that have been lost …
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) have made a significant discovery to understand the seasonal variations in the density of ionosphere over Antarctica based on decade-long records from the Indian Antarctic station, Bharati, researchers said. The findings are based on recordings between 2010 and 2022 at the Bharati station. (HT Archive) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} …