The findings, published. The land of snow and ice was once a flourishing continent. 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. Whenever he isnt busy writing about tech or gadgets, he can usually be found enjoying a new world in a video game, or tinkering with something on his computer. 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.. 03:28. Gray's wife hired an underwater search team, Olfactory Receptor Response to the Cockroach Sexual Attractant, Wind-tunnel study on attraction inhibitor in male Coleophora laricella Hbn. Published Jul 16, 2008. The ship itself was never found, and neither was the crew. 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. 2. And rather than feeling discouraged about expeditions that are funded by paying passengers, Turney is more enthusiastic than ever. There was disruption and we were incredibly grateful to everyone for their help. They are formed when huge slabs of ice are pushed off the land onto the ocean surface. Fortunately though, from what we learned later, it seems that a lot of work was not harmed, Turney said. What we have found is that 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.. 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. The actual well head itself would be enclosed by a tent, he said, and scientists would sleep in tents as well. That blocked the exit for fresh sea ice. The numbers of skuas seemed to have fallen too. Market data provided by Factset. 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. The moisture in your mouth would start to freeze, he said. Press Esc to cancel. 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. 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 shelf acts as a cork, holding the dense body of ice back on the land. Classroom Antarctica is a comprehensive online teaching resource with lesson plans aimed at grades 3 to 8. 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. 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. They need to be out by the 6th of February, Pearce said, when winter sets in and temperatures drop another 40 degrees centigrade. The Concordia research base in Eastern Antarctica, one of the most remote research facilities in . 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. Brian holding U. S. flag next to the metal pole with yellow top that marked 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. The new findings fill in the missing pieces to previous studies about the glacier, according to the authors. "They can float, they can cover almost any ground, and we've been traveling all over; they've been so reliable. PERFORM YOUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE BEFORE BUYING OR SELLING ANY INVESTMENTS, SECURITIES, OR PRECIOUS METALS. 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 scientists say they just happened to stumble upon the structure that houses an entire ecosystem of amphipods. Legal Statement. In July 1994, Ernst Priesner went out into the Bavarian Alps by himself, of course to check some traps. I dont think theres anything sinister or ominous, Pearce said. Scientists have recently discovered a hidden world underneath Antarctica. In 2019, a team of 13 US and British scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration traveled to the glacier for about six weeks and used mooring data, sensors and an. More conspiracy-minded people think the whole nuclear winter idea might have been heavily promoted by Russia, designed to convince activists in the United States to protest America's nuclear weapons programs. Instead, scientists walked away having discovered an entirely unknown world and ecosystem. 10 - The Pyramids of Antarctica. But summit fever isn't just something mountaineers get. The Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in ice on Christmas Day 2013 only two weeks after leaving New Zealand. We were living in our own bubble. The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica, one of the largest valley glaciers in the world. 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. The expedition needed a new rescue plan. You see this remarkable transition with the expansion of sea ice. The discovery of the hidden world under Antarctica was made at The Ross Ice Shelf. "We love the Argos!" We guide our loyal readers to some of the best products, latest trends, and most engaging stories with non-stop coverage, available across all major news platforms. A lot of kelp and other life on the seabed is dead or dying. Into the seasonal dead zone, a real story had dropped. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Theres a natural interest in discovery, in exploring. Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Florida's statewide recount began Sunday morning after a three-hour delay amid a series of technical glitches with Broward County's counting machines. He witnessed a number of anomalies pointing to hidden facilities or bases located deep under the Antarctic ice sheets. There is nobody to call.. Brushlinski, who was also a member of the Russian Academy of Science, was killed on January 28 by what authorities simply . 14 months in Antarctica The Alfred Wegener Institute's Neumeyer-Station III in Antarctica Stahn/Charit One way to potentially study the effects of long-term isolation on the human brain is to. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. 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. The discovery of the hidden world under Antarctica was made at The Ross Ice Shelf. 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. But they must battle more than just the cold. "We just wanted to let all our family and friends know there is no risk to the vessel and everyone is well," he wrote on the expedition's website. A rescue mission swung into operation. The hidden world was found over 1,640 feet below the surface of the ice in Antarctica. 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." Another 10 years there probably wont be many left, said Turney. And that the air sampling station (big hole in the ice) was actually ajoint base with the scientists and the E.T.s., Brian, retired Navy Flight Engineer, Antarctic Development Squadron Six, July 1, 2016 Phoenix, Arizona A year and a half ago in January 2015, I received an email from a retired 60-year-old U. S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer, who asked me to only call him Brian. [See June 30, 2016 URL link to new reprint of whole original interview at end of this report below.]. But Peng had completely vanished. The collapse of the glacier itself could take hundreds or thousands of years. Dr Mike Double Leader, Australian Marine Mammal Centre. Passengers aboard Akademik Shokalskiy were successfully transferred by Chinese helicopter to the ice surface near Australian rescue ship Aurora Australis in January. One study, published in the journal Nature, maps how iceberg calving - the breaking off of ice from a glacier front - has . Lake Vostok hasnt been exposed to air in more than 20 million years. A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what REALLY occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice. 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. Half of the standard passengers aboard the Shokalskiy paid A$18,000 (9,700) to go along as scientific assistants. A Dobson spectrophotometer at NOAA's South Pole Station had measured total ozone column since 1961. Emilia Clarke on why she turned down 'Fifty Shades' role. Gray's friends and colleagues weren't about to give up, though. Russian scientists announced today that they have reached Antarctica's Lake Vostok, an ancient, liquid lake the size of Lake Ontario buried beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of ice for. When the weather gets bad, they. It was all looking fine first of all, and then all of a sudden it changed really quickly, and we were trapped.". Later at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks. If we observe less melting that doesnt change the fact that its retreating.. That weekend, Brian returned to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, and on Monday, June 6, was back at his aerospace job, while I was still at CONTACT. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. According to the BBC, the last time anyone saw or heard from Weisfeiler was in January 1985. When they re-appeared, Brians flight crew was assigned to pick them up, and all were silent and appeared scared. The financial support from the National Science Foundation, which extends back to the time of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1956-57, 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. Dr Dana Bergstrom applied Antarctic ecologist. That morning Brian received a surprising and disturbing phone call. After drilling a hole through the ice, scientists dropped a camera into the hole. As I noted above, Antarctica is often considered one of, if not the coldest, driest, and iciest places on Earth. Chinese, French and Australian icebreakers hurried to the scene only to be defeated by the ice floes themselves. 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. The Russian scientists have been communicating with Pearce and colleagues at a third Antarctic expedition a study of the subglacial Whillans Ice Streammainly featuring U.S. scientists. And that's a shame. 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. Scientists say that the lake disappeared from the Amery Ice Shelf sometime . "They're greatly relieved," he told Popular Mechanics on Jan. 6. Market data provided by Factset. Click here for larger map. 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. And thats for good reason. In 2000, documents came to light that suggested Weisfeiler might have been abducted and murdered. Legal Statement. 3. With no icebreaker able to smash way through, a Chinese helicopter, Xue Ying, or Snow Eagle, rose into the air for the first of five flights to ferry passengers from the stricken ship to the Aurora Australis. At one level I still cant fathom it. Often, the only person who can say what led to a disappearance is the missing person, so it's impossible to do much more than speculate about some cases. Dr Glenn Johnstone applied benthic biologist. You can take some people with you on the expedition, and with modern technology you can take the rest of the world, he said. Youre away from your family and friends, and theres pressure to deliver the science youve promised. Temperatures in the area had gone up sharply Aug. 14, probably melting sea ice, and then had fallen quickly to minus 16, Laws said. THE CONTENT ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Officials said 26 explorers or scientists have been killed in the survey's 40-year program in the Antarctic. 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. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming, and tech culture. The voyage was meant to retrace the steps of Douglas Mawson, the great polar explorer and scientist who led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911. Locations of high strangeness in 1995 to 1996, identified by Prepared in cooperation with United States Antarctic Program, National Science Foundation U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Activities in the Exploration of Antarctica: 1995-96 Field Season The most common way for a scientist to vanish appears to be in the line of duty, which is actually pretty fitting and not so terrible, especially from a poetic perspective. Brian's high strangeness experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica were in the 1983 to 1997 time period and included several observations of aerial silver discs darting around over the . 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. 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. Later at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks. Turney said. Gray set off in sunny weather on a voyage that was only supposed to take one day. 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. The Shokalskiy's Russian crew stayed with their ship, where they waited until they managed to free the ship today. "An Antarctic research station is like a remote mining town, but because it's nobody's permanent . Repeatedly the crew was sternly told that they did NOT see what they kept seeing. VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 20 (UPI) -- Military conscription returns to Lithuania amid Eastern Europe's military tension. It's the world's largest ice shelf and has been the focus of multiple research projects over the years. A world thats teeming with life. Scientists inspected ecosystems on the sea floor. Ardern this week is making a rare visit by a world leader to Antarctica, to see firsthand the research taking place on global warming and to mark the 65th anniversary of New Zealand's Scott Base, . To previous studies about the glacier itself could take hundreds or thousands of years a cork, the... 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