But the specks were not due to faulty equipment. VIDEO: Loading from Amazing Polly: BOOM! A Dobson spectrophotometer at NOAA's South Pole Station had measured total ozone column since 1961. CPI Aero signs contract with Sikorsky Black Hawk fuel assemblies. So now that hes retired from the Navy while still working in civilian aerospace, Brian wanted to share what he has seen and experienced with me at Earthfiles because he is convinced that an alien presence is living and working on this planet. This is the 46th U.S. expedition to Antarctica in which USGS scientists have participated. The ship itself was never found, and neither was the crew. I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week, he said. No one could believe he'd just vanished without a trace somewhere out there was a body, or maybe even a live man who'd decided to abandon everything he knew so he could live in the jungle and make friends with mosquitos. On land, counts of Adlie penguins revealed the population had slumped near Mawsons huts in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica. We were living in our own bubble. The icebound crew of the Akademik Shokalskiy made headlines but, a year on, the fruits of their expedition are revealed. So not only is Ernst Priesner still missing today, but his work has been set back until someone else steps up to the plate so we can better understand how and why cockroaches get it on, and stuff. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Dr Dana Bergstrom applied Antarctic ecologist. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -129degreesFahrenheit (-89.4 degrees Celsius). Get a daily look at whats developing in science and technology throughout the world. You look at satellite information, you look at trends and what the data's showing, you keep an eye on the weather the whole time. "I mean, we're working in Antarctica, certainly, but you try to minimize that risk as much as possible. Commonwealth Bay has experienced substantial changes in recent years. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! According to China Daily, in 1980 Peng led an expedition into the Lop Nur desert, a dangerous landscape full of soft riverbeds and shifting sand dunes, which made for treacherous traveling conditions. NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) -- Emilia Clarke does not regret turning down the lead role in the movie adaptation of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. Antarctica is often considered the coldest, driest, and iciest place on Earth. Because he vanished nearly 100 years ago and even if he ended up living in a luxurious jungle palace where he ate only vegetables and seafood and never developed cancer or scurvy or fell on anything sharp, he still died of old age some time between 1947 and 1987, if you're being optimistic. But there aren't any good theories to explain why the boat might have gotten into trouble in the first place, especially considering the good weather and its captain's extensive experience. Unlike sea ice, these slabs can be . "Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," Dr. John Priscu -- professor of ecology at Montana State University and former head of the Whillans Antarctic exploration program -- told FoxNews.com via email. The discovery is a remarkable one, thats for sure. They are formed when huge slabs of ice are pushed off the land onto the ocean surface. Chinese, French and Australian icebreakers hurried to the scene only to be defeated by the ice floes themselves. For Russian geologist Vladimir Rusanov, it was Northern Sea Route fever. New research indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the surface of the icy continent. Published Jul 16, 2008. When Popular Mechanics spoke with Turney via Skype on Dec. 27, the expedition had just learned that the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon) had been stopped by the ice within sight of the stranded scientists. Repeatedly the crew was sternly told that they did NOT see what they kept seeing. There is nobody to call.. More justified were complaints that the expedition had disrupted the scientific work of other teams, principally those affected by the diversion of the several nations icebreakers who arrived to help the Shokalskiy. Your nostrils would start to freeze. As such, it makes sense that the discovery was so surprising. Before his disappearance, Mutch was the Associate Administrator for Space Science at NASA and the author of two books on the geology of the Moon and Mars. BGR is a part of Penske Media Corporation. The animals inhabit a wedge of . Weather Data Notice: We have recorded very few readings for this month, some days may be missing. The moisture in your mouth would start to freeze, he said. He hopes to achieve something similar with AAE, and so far, he says, it has worked. Now to be fair, he was known for doing research alone in remote places, but he was an anthropologist, so it's unlikely he would have been conducting research in places totally devoid of other humans. At a remote Antarctic outpost, cameras have been installed to capture time-lapse images of geological features in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Pearce heads a team from theBritishAntarcticSurveyon a competing mission, set to plumb the depths of Lake Ellsworth, one of a string of more than 370 lakes beneath Antarctica that may soon see light for the first time since well before Fred Flintstones ancestors roamed the planet. A couple ships went out in search of Rusanov in the years that followed, but the closest anyone ever came to learning the fate of the ship was a few "personal effects" found on Popova-Chukchina Island, and awooden column on another island inscribed with the ship's name, "Gerkules." DEEP WOO: DID MUSKS OPEN A.I. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. This rough-looking vessel carries some 30 scientists; four Zodiac boats; three tracked, floating, all-terrain vehicles called Argos; and an assortment of scientific equipment. Antarctica Retired Navy Flight Engineer Warned by NSAto Stop Talking About Missing Scientists, The U. S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a videofound by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice.. 'The men had intended to make a day trip reconnaissance in fine weather, returning to Petermann Island that day, in which case they would have had survival sacks and limited food and fuel, but not a full field camping outfit with them,' Laws said. According to the BBC, the last time anyone saw or heard from Weisfeiler was in January 1985. Such changes were bound to impact on life beneath the ice. Climate change is expected to be more rapid and severe in polar regions compared to other places on Earth. Related coverage: Scientists may have found something unfathomably massive living under Antarctica. Without the contributions of Vladimir Alexandrov, we might not have the full, terrifying concept of the descending darkness that would accompany full-scale nuclear war, and therefore no bleak, depressing post-apocalyptic movies starring Viggo Mortensen. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Alok Jha and Laurence Topham look on at the Akademik Shokalskiy beset in ice in East Antarctica. We were on a ship that had serious problems, said Turney. A core crew remained behind to sail vessel home once conditions allowed. That's what happened to Peng Jiamu, a biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. U. S. Naval Flight Engineer (Ret). The research stations are like small towns but only kind of. Yet somehow life continues to find a way. There are a few things you should learn here, but the big one is this: Don't go off into the wilderness by yourself, especially if you're a prominent scientist. Several times, they all saw rapidly moving silver discs over the Transantarctic Mountains. Massive "Alien" Structures hidden deep beneath the Ice. Located in an area called Wilkes Land on Antarctica . In 1925 he entered the jungle with two companions, two laborers, and a ton of supplies. According to the BBC, the last time anyone saw or heard from Weisfeiler was in January 1985. The squadrons mission was to provide aviation support for Operation Deep Freeze, the operational component of the United States Antarctic Program. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below. Turney and his team are especially interested in learning whether the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is stable or in danger of melting, studying shifts in the circulation of the Southern Ocean, and noting changes in populations of marine mammals, birds, and plant life. At any rate, one such disappearance was the case of Boris Weisfeiler, a mathematician who decided one day that Pennsylvania winters were just too danged warm so he was going to go hiking in the mountains of southern Chile. But summit fever isn't just something mountaineers get. The large hole was said to be five to ten miles from the South Pole, in the supposed no fly zone. Mutch's body was never recovered. Since his failed expedition, archaeologists have discovered huge cities of stone fortified by walls hidden within the jungle, not too far from where he disappeared. The hidden world was found over 1,640 feet below the surface of the ice in Antarctica. Scientists previously relied on satellite images to look into the nature of the ice, making this new research the first time scientists have been able to see the grounding line where the action begins.. So, this continent has a profound effect on our planet. Scientists have recently discovered a hidden world underneath Antarctica. See Websites below. Some of these, like the warming effect of water . The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mapping program in Antarctica is one of the longest continuously funded projects in the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). Officials said 26 explorers or scientists have been killed in the survey's 40-year program in the Antarctic. While the oldest known core of ice dates back approximately 2.7 million years, per Science, the oldest continuous ice core dates back just 800,000. A rescue mission swung into operation. As the ice built up, the ocean conveyor system partially closed down. The Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute did not respond to FoxNews.com requests for information on the status of the team, information that did not surprise Priscu. A 2021 study said the ice shelf could collapse within the next five years while scientists said last year Thwaites is hanging on by its fingernails., David Rounce, a glaciologist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in the study, told CNN the new research provides novel insights into how rapidly the bottom of the ice shelf is melting and the mechanisms by which its melting, which are very important for improving our understanding and ability to model how Thwaites will change in the future.. Percy Fawcett, besides having the most English name of all time, was a geographer and archaeologist searching for the City of Z, a lost civilization he believed was hidden somewhere in the Amazon. Davis added that the joint studies could can help make more accurate projections about sea level rise, which can be fed into efforts to mitigate climate change and protect coastal communities. It was designed by Thomas Poulter, who very nearly died after being . ]. The theory, called crustal displacement, alleges that movements in the Earth's. Locations of high strangeness in 1995 to 1996, identified by U. S. Naval Flight Engineer (Ret). The goal is to collect data on climate, geology, oceanography, and ecology to compare with the detailed observations of Mawson's expedition a century before. Dr Mike Double Leader, Australian Marine Mammal Centre. a study of the subglacial Whillans Ice Stream, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But time is running out for the Russian scientists. But as far as what they intended to do, I think they got the lot," he told Popular Mechanics. He witnessed a number of anomalies pointing to hidden facilities or bases located deep under the Antarctic ice sheets. Three days later, an Antarctic blizzard stalled the rescue efforts. But during an emergency medevac crisis, to speed up their trip, they flew across the No Fly Zone and saw apparently what they were not supposed to see: a huge hole in the ice entrance to an underground installation. "We're not sure if we're going to get back in on the return journey north, so we'll just have to play that one by ear at the moment.". Oh and guess what, he was alone. According to a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers have discovered a massive living world below Antarctica's icy surface that could be as big as 5 million square. It was all looking fine first of all, and then all of a sudden it changed really quickly, and we were trapped.". 'Never in a million years' would they have expected it, the lead scientist said. Antarcticas Thwaites Glacier is reportedly melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research published Wednesday by Cornell University and the British Antarctic Survey. THE CONTENT ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. He was in Madrid, so there's a possibility he might have defected, which would explain why he was never heard from again. There was disruption and we were incredibly grateful to everyone for their help. "We're trying to make the best of it, really." Scientists call this "marine ice sheet instability." Researchers believe that as recently as some 100,000 years ago, West Antarctica was not a sheet of ice at all but rather, an open ocean that later converted to glacier. The fear is that the melting now taking place could lead to a return to open ocean. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. Like Mawsons expedition in 1911, Turneys was only possible because the public helped pay. CAMBRIDGE, England -- Three British scientists, presumed dead in Antartica, may have fallen through thin sea ice more than a week ago, officials said. The land of snow and ice was once a flourishing continent. Researchers have discovered the sudden disappearance of a massive, icy lake in East Antarctica. And he did tell his friend that he felt like his life was in danger, which seems incompatible with a solo trek into the wilderness. Media interest in the expedition faded after the rescue, but in the year since Turney and his team have been busy. Its not just physically challenging, its psychologically challenging, Pearce said. Technically, this dude is dead. On the voyage Turney published progress reports on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. After that his trail went cold. Brian entered the U. S. Navy in 1977, and retired 20 years later in 1997. Hewas known for his work with Thakali traders in the upper Kaligandaki river valley and as a professor at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. However, the stop would have been only an additional set of observations; the expedition has accomplished the majority of its science goals, according to Stone. Nobody lives in Antarctica permanently. 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