The unique ice, 1.5 meters old, is to melt to open mystery

Georgina Ranard

Climate and Science correspondent

ReportingBritish Antarctic Wiping, Cambridge
PNRA/IPEV is the end of the essence of ice stuck in a metal tube, inside a metal jolly. It is located inside a large tent in Antarctica where the ice shell is kept. On the left side, there is a person wearing a bright red jacket and a hat hat.PNRA / Ipev

The end of the ice core is 1.5 million years or even an older time capsule

The essence of ice, which may be greater than 1.5 million years, has arrived in the United Kingdom, where scientists will resolve to cancel vital information about the Earth’s climate.

The glass cylinder is the oldest ice of the planet and dug from the depths of the ice cover in Antarctica.

Frozen at home is thousands of years of new information that scientists say can “revolution” what we know about climate change.

BBC News went inside the freez -23C room in the British Antarctic Wiping in Cambridge to see the valuable boxes of the ice.

PNRA/IPEV two people wearing red -zero -zero leap suits carrying a large white box between them via an ice tunnel towards the camera. Many similar boxes are stacked on each side of the cave walls.PNRA / Ipev

The cores were stored in an automatic cave Antarctica before loading it on a boat for Europe

“This is completely unknown from our land,” says Dr. Liz Thomas, head of the basic ice research at the British Antarctic Survey.

Red warning lamps flash over the door, and inside it there is an opening in emergency situations in a tunnel in the event of an error.

The rules say that we cannot go inside for only 15 minutes at a time, and wearing a lined ministers, shoes, caps and gloves.

Our electronic camera has been rushing and our hair began in the kidnapper as it became iceberg.

On a work surface next to the ice -stacked boxes, Dr. Thomas refers to the oldest core that can be 1.5 million years old. They shine and likely we can see our hands through them.

BBC News Liz Thomas stands inside a laboratory wearing an orange and black protective suit, and a hat. In the background, there is a mark on the wall, manual manual distributors.BBC News

Dr. Liz Thomas will lead a team that analyzes ice cores in the British Antarctic Survey

For seven weeks, the team will slowly dissolve the ice that was obtained hard, and the old dust, volcanic ash, and even small marine algae called the diatoms that were locked inside when the water turned into the ice.

These materials can tell scientists about wind patterns, temperature and sea levels for more than a million years.

The pipes will feed the liquid in machines in a nearby laboratory that is one of the only places in the world that can do this science.

BBC News that the person wearing clothes, orange and black water has his hands on long tubes covered with plastic avoidance. Pipes inside a large box.BBC News

The ice boxes in Cambridge will be dissolved for seven weeks

It was a great multinational effort to extract the ice nuclei in Antarctica, at the cost of millions. The ice was cut into 1m blocks and transported it in the boat and then in a cold car to Cambridge.

Engineer James Phil helped extract ice near the Concordia base in East Antarctica.

“To confirm this in the hands of the jump carefully and I am very burned not to drop the sections – it was a great feeling,” he says.

PNRA/IPEV 15 iceweed ice cores and a diameter of about 15 cm inside a metal golly. They are stacked on wood shelves and minerals.PNRA / Ipev

2.8 km of ice-more than eight Eiffel Towers, was extracted from end to end

Institutions in Germany and Switzerland also received cross clips from the heart of 2.8 km.

The difference can find evidence of a period of time for more than 800,000 years when carbon dioxide concentrations are high or higher than they are now, according to Dr. Thomas.

This can help them understand what will happen in our future, as our planet responds to the besieged warming gases in Jona.

PNRA/Ipev is a small group of tents and temporary shelters in the middle of the white ice cover in the Antarctic. A trail of turbulent ice leads from the camp that indicates the way of transportation. The sky is bright blue.PNRA / Ipev

The drilling occurred about 40 km from the Italian Italian research station Concordia

“Our climate system has gone through many different changes that we really need to return in time to understand these different processes and different transformation points,” she says.

The difference between today and the previous ages with high greenhouse gases is that humans have now caused the rapid rise in warming gases in the past 150 years.

This takes us to an unspecified area, but scientists hope that the record of our ecosystem’s ecosystem will be in the ice that may give us some directives.

The graph that shows carbon dioxide levels is now higher than it was at any time in 800,000 years. The axis X 800,000 to the left is exposed to the right. The Y axis shows 150 parts of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere per million to 450. The blue line shows levels that rise up and down until around 1950 when it reaches the highest level in 2024.

The team will determine the chemical isotopes in the liquid that can tell us wind patterns, temperatures and rain for a period of time between 800,000 and up to 1.5 million years or perhaps more.

They will use a tool called the Plasma mass of the couple (ICPMS) to measure more than 20 elements and trace metals.

This includes rare ground elements, sea salts and marine elements, as well as indicators of previous volcanic explosions.

This work will help scientists to understand a mysterious change called the midstine transmission 800,000 to 1.2 million years ago when the ice planet cycles suddenly changed.

BBC News, a man wearing a gray shirt standing in a corridor, with orange and green files around him.  BBC News

James Phil was part of the team on the Antarctica, which dug and extracting ice for four seasons

The transition from eras was warmer to cold ice ages, when the ice covered more than the ground, every 41,000 years, but suddenly turned to 100,000 years.

The reason for this shift is one of the “most exciting questions that have not been solved” in climate science, according to Dr. Thomas.

The cores may have evidence of a time when sea levels were much higher than they are now and when the wide ice sheets in Antarctica were smaller.

The presence of dust in the ice will help them understand how ice panels have shrunk and contributed to the rise in sea level – which is a great source of concern this century.

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