"The only question mark really is whether we'll have any time to stop at Macquarie Island," he told Popular Mechanics. Turney said. Two studies published Aug. 10 and led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reveal unexpected new data about how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass in recent decades. The work of Mires, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Kovacs, of Marine Imaging Technologies, is part of a new collaboration between the U.S. military and outside scientists to apply the tools of research science to help bring missing service members home. They wrote software to help volunteers sift through thousands of satellite images in search of Gray's red and white boat, and they enlisted the help of Google Earth satellites. After drilling a hole through the ice, scientists dropped a camera into the hole. 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. THE COMMENTARY ON THE PHASER.COM REFLECTS THE OPINIONS OF THE PHASER.COM AND OTHER CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS. It was designed by Thomas Poulter, who very nearly died after being . DEEP WOO: DID MUSKS OPEN A.I. The last communication from the ship was a telegram on September 27, 1912, in which Rusanov said he planned to sail east across the Kara Sea. On Dec. 20, the expedition reached the hut left by Mawson 100 years ago. Despite it being so remote, the consequences of what happens on Thwaites will impact everybody., Robert Larter/British Antarctic Survey, ESA via AP, Schmidt/Lawrence/Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP, Becka Bower/Cornell University/Handout via REUTERS, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Meteorite containing material billions of years old discovered in Antarctica, Penguins may be self-aware, according to controversial mirror test, Ozone hole closes later than usual for 3rd year in a row, scientists say, Terrifying Drake Passage video leaves TikTok feeling seasick. They need to be out by the 6th of February, Pearce said, when winter sets in and temperatures drop another 40 degrees centigrade. Fortunately though, from what we learned later, it seems that a lot of work was not harmed, Turney said. So, this continent has a profound effect on our planet. Sounds impressive. He had some enemies, too elites who were annoyed by his efforts to help empower lower-class Nepalese. And sometimes those people had to venture into places where few people have gone before, places so remote that when the unthinkable did happen, the rest of the world was left with an unsolvable mystery. On June 17, the team was running low on vital supplies, so Peng walked out of camp, leaving only a note to inform his companions that he was going to go look for water. Temperatures in the area had gone up sharply Aug. 14, probably melting sea ice, and then had fallen quickly to minus 16, Laws said. Another 10 years there probably wont be many left, said Turney. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! We organized to meet with his nephew, Kelly, and a friend to talk more about Brians Antarctica experiences. Antarctica Retired Navy Flight Engineer Warned by NSA to Stop Talking About Missing Scientists. The Russian scientists have been communicating with Pearce and colleagues at a third Antarctic expedition -- a study of the subglacial Whillans Ice Stream mainly featuring U.S. scientists. Instead, they found that swarms of tiny amphipods were moving in front of the lens. Legal Statement. A world thats teeming with life. Photograph: Andrew Peacock /Rex Features. Turney acknowledges that the rescue operation had an impact on others scientific work, but adds that Antarctica is a risky place for any expedition. 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). The expedition will return to Hobart, Australia, rather than to its home port of Bluff, New Zealand, and the planned stop at Macquarie Island is, in Stone's words, "so not on." The ocean circulation at Commonwealth Bay was disrupted in 2010 after an enormous iceberg, B09B, arrived. Since the glacier acts as a dam to the surrounding ice in west Antarctica, if it melts and collapses, it could raise sea levels by up to 10 feet, oceanic researchers from Cornell and the British Antarctic Survey reported. TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEWS ED DOWD (COMPLETE, UNEDITED INTERVIEW). We wouldn't have got into Mawson's hut if we hadn't had those Argos." According to the BBC, the last time anyone saw or heard from Weisfeiler was in January 1985. The discovery of the hidden world under Antarctica was made at The Ross Ice Shelf. He couldn't come down without the crampon, so one of his two companions went to find a spare and when he returned, Mutch was gone. The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica, one of the largest valley glaciers in the world. Which is why scientists are trying to learn more about it. The expedition needed a new rescue plan. According to theNew York Times, the Coast Guard searched 132,000 square miles of ocean for four days but found no trace of the Turing Award-winning Microsoft researcher's 40-foot sailboat. That was all in real time, live, so we can actually bring Antarctica to the public back at home. Russian dance troupe under investigation after twerking performance goes viral. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10 - The Pyramids of Antarctica. Scientists accidentally found life under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica. Brian and his C-130 crew received orders to not talk about the silver discs, the huge ice hole and the missing, scared scientists. . EVERYTHING OLD IS Q AGAIN VIDEO: Loading from Exposing Corruption: LISTEN!! Hewas known for his work with Thakali traders in the upper Kaligandaki river valley and as a professor at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. At a remote Antarctic outpost, cameras have been installed to capture time-lapse images of geological features in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. 00:25. VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 20 (UPI) -- Military conscription returns to Lithuania amid Eastern Europe's military tension. The discovery of the hidden world under Antarctica was made at The Ross Ice Shelf. He added, "I wish I'd bought a fleet of them. Gray set off in sunny weather on a voyage that was only supposed to take one day. Mutch's body was never recovered. The world holds its breath, hoping for the best after six days of radio silence from Antarctica where a team of Russian scientists is racing the clock and the oncoming winter to dig to an alien lake far beneath the ice. The scientists say they just happened to stumble upon the structure that houses an entire ecosystem of amphipods. 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. Scientists inspected ecosystems on the sea floor. If you're stricken with summit fever, nothing will dissuade you from the summit, not even life-threatening illness, because Everest is your dream, and dang it, it cost you a lot of money to get there. The. 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. The team from RussiasArctic 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. The Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in ice on Christmas Day 2013 only two weeks after leaving New Zealand. 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. The birds are now commuting 40 miles to get food for their young. Antarctic scientists carry Iridium satellite phones for communication, he said, but there are spots without coverage. Christian Haas, head of the Sea Ice Physics Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, told CNN. The ship itself was never found, and neither was the crew. According to the American Alpine Club, he was last seen "on a precarious ledge" just after losing a crampon, which is kind of like an iron maiden for your shoes. The scientists in Antarctica discovered radio pulses that indicated high-energy neutrinos coming upward out of the ground, which led to various different explanations, including that the pulses. Rather than feeling chastened by the trip, he is more convinced than ever that the paying, participating public are crucial. To survive the extreme colds there, scientists wear as many layers as possible and do everything they can to work indoors. Bounds on Earth's climate sensitivityhow far temperatures will eventually rise for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxidedid not narrow for 40 years. And thats for good reason. When he proposed marriage in 1969, Frame literally ran away, and when she finally returned a week later, Williams had vanished. Thesearch team even located a missing camel that had been almost completely buried by shifting sands. People who try to climb Mount Everest sometimes die from "summit fever," which is a sort of psychosis. or redistributed. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. The scientists may have encountered a technical issue, he speculated, or perhaps theyve simply packed up and are travelling home -- keeping their discoveries to themselves. the geographic south pole. Two studies published in the journal Nature found that deep cracks and staircase formations in the ice are melting at a faster rate due to rising temperatures, though the pace of melting underneath is slower than previously believed. Second, the team probed individual climate feedbacks. It's no wonder the continent is entrenched in so many legends - from the entrance to fabled "Shangri La" located in the earth's interior to the . If you left your eyes open the fluid in them would start to freeze. 2. 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 one level I still cant fathom it. The men probably died by falling through thin sea ice as long as nine days ago or could have been carried away to sea on a breaking ice floe, Laws said. What B09B has done is effectively fast track an area of East Antarctica and given us an insight into what the rest of the place might be experiencing if the trend continues, Turney said. In the West, it's less likely that your unpopular theories will get you disappeared, but all bets are off if you're working within a less-than-democratic nation. The glacier is still in trouble despite small amounts of melting there is still rapid glacier retreat, so it seems that it doesnt take a lot to push the glacier out of balance.. Not long after that, his backpack was found next to a river. They are running out of time to complete the drilling this year, Pearce said. But they must battle more than just the cold. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. And other expeditions find bodies in Lop Nur all the time though to date none of them have turned out to be Peng. Despite all its technology and the tenacity of participants, the weeks-long search turned up nothing, soGray's wife hired an underwater search teamto scan the ocean floor. To get around the harsh terrain, AAE relied on its trio of eight-wheeled Argos. Search parties failed to locate him, and his colleagues concluded he'd met with some kind of accidental death, and then proceeded to divide up all of his stuff. The evidence was damning enough that eight people were arrested and charged with the kidnapping, but the judge eventually closed the case and set everyone free, citing statutes of limitations. Several factors may feed into why sea ice is so low, including winds, ocean currents and ocean heat. Passengers and scientists stomp an area of ice next to the Akademik Shokalskiy for a makeshift helicopter landing pad in readiness for evacuation from the trapped ship in Antarctica. In July 1994, Ernst Priesner went out into the Bavarian Alps by himself, of course to check some traps. In this tale of adventure gone terribly, terribly wrong, a geologist and planetary scientist named Thomas A. Mutch vanished in 1980 while descending a 23,000-foot peak in the Kashmir Himalayas. Missing scientists presumed dead in Antartica CAMBRIDGE, England -- Three British scientists, presumed dead in Antartica, may have fallen through thin sea ice more than a week ago,. The 30 mile-long slab of ice smashed into the nearby Mertz glacier tongue and grounded itself at the entrance to the bay. Dr Elanor Bell Southern Ocean Research Coordinator. THE CONTENT ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. The whistleblower has alleged there is an alien base in the Antarctic. 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. 3. In 1980, Amundsen-Scott Station cook Casey Jones died. He and his C-130 crew encountered high strangeness in Antarctica from 1995 to 1996. From an Australian perspective, many projects were cancelled or abbreviated because of re-direction of shipping, a problem when shipping is such a limiting factor, said Pat Quilty, former chief scientist at the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, and a researcher at the University of Tasmania. One study, published in the journal Nature, maps how iceberg calving - the breaking off of ice from a glacier front - has . Air temperatures have been higher than usual in parts of the Antarctic, around 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long term average. Image courtesy Brian. "It's always an inherent risk," expedition leader Chris Turney told Popular Mechanics via Skype on Dec. 27. An research crew was retracing the steps of a century-old Antarctic excursion when their ship became trapped by the ice. A team of scientists trapped in Antarctica for more than a week is on its way home aboard an Australian icebreaker after a series of failed rescue attempts culminated in a helicopter airlift off the stranded vessel. There was disruption and we were incredibly grateful to everyone for their help. Once we got back home and made sure everyone was all right, we got on with working up the data and getting a whole load of papers ready for submission, Turney said. Hopefully that bus took him somewhere safe and he lived the rest of his life studying the strange behavior of American touristsa relatively safe scientific pursuit, comparatively speaking. He was also involved in the Viking mission to Mars as the lead for the Lander Imaging Team. On top of providing evidence of a vast ecosystem beneath the ice, nobody expected to find any kind of life there, let alone a hidden world under Antarctica. One scientific theory claims that once upon a time Antarctica was ice-free and home to an ancient civilisation. Throughout history, just about every explorer or scientist with a dream gets some version of summit fever, whether it's lost city fever or desert fever or cockroach pheromone fever. So what happened to Alexandrov? Today we call this genetic disorder Williams syndrome, after the doctor who identified it and then disappeared less than 10 years later. The collapse of the glacier itself could take hundreds or thousands of years. A lot of kelp and other life on the seabed is dead or dying. Dr. Anton Padalka told authorities in Switzerland that the researchers discovered a bizarre and deadly life form dubbed Organism 46-B - What has happened in Commonwealth Bay may be echoed around the continent in the future. The financial support from the National Science Foundation, which extends back to the time of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1956-57, 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. A group of scientists discovered ancient viruses frozen in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China, and most of them are unlike anything ever seen before. Prior to the discovery of the ozone hole, the ozone layer over Antarctica had been monitored from ground-based and balloon-borne instruments for many decades, and by satellites since 1970. As one of the polar caps, it is responsible for 90 percent of the worlds ice and 80 percent of its fresh water. As the story went global, the venture came in for plenty of criticism. For Russian geologist Vladimir Rusanov, it was Northern Sea Route fever. What happened instead captured the. 'Never in a million years' would they have expected it, the lead scientist said. Commonwealth Bay has experienced substantial changes in recent years. The researchers say that having such a hidden world beneath the arctic ice is clear evidence of an ecosystem at play. Some of these, like the warming effect of water . When youre outside, its extremely cold minus 30, minus 40, microbiologist Dr. David A. Pearce told FoxNews.com. If those things are true, then Williams is likely one missing person who would really just prefer to remain missing. When they re-appeared, Brians flight crew was assigned to pick them up, and all were silent and appeared scared. 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