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Without its poor, Lagos would not be known for its music or its endless energy or even the fact that you can buy an
ice
cold drink or a puppy through your car window.
He’d even received the blessing of the famed explorer Fridtjof Nansen, along with the use of his ship, Fram, specially constructed to withstand the
ice.
And as they finally began to lay supplies, they found both their ponies and motor-sledges ineffective in the harsh
ice
and snow.
How do I get beyond the bitterness and the sadness and the lethargy and watching an inordinate amount of television as I eat
ice
cream?
At a planetary scale, Earth can’t run out of freshwater thanks to the water cycle, a system that continuously produces and recycles water, morphing it from vapour, to liquid, to
ice
as it circulates around the globe.
Of the remaining 3% of potentially usable freshwater, more than two-thirds is frozen in
ice
caps and glaciers.
That leaves less than 1% available for sustaining all life on Earth, spread across our planet in rivers, lakes, underground aquifers, ground
ice
and permafrost.
Unfortunately, the
ice
is thick.
Mostly, they just live out there in the cold of the outer solar system, but they are biologically very interesting indeed, because they consist primarily of
ice
with other minerals, which are just the right ones for developing life.
You can imagine that the plants growing up like kelp through cracks in the ice, growing on the surface.
You still are on a piece of ice, you can still have sunlight and you can still survive while you're traveling from one place to another.
It's all like French vanilla
ice
cream: the first taste is 100 percent; by the time you're down to the sixth taste, it's gone.
Well, here we are on a repurposed Air Force cargo plane operated by NASA flying over the Greenland
ice
sheet.
What the Wikipedia articles didn't tell me is that there's liquid water hidden inside the
ice
sheet, because we didn't know that yet.
I did learn on Wikipedia that the Greenland
ice
sheet is huge, the size of Mexico, and its
ice
from top to bottom is two miles thick.
The
ice
flows like a river downhill towards the ocean.
I get to study these amazing
ice
dynamics, which are located in one of the most remote physical environments remaining on earth.
Our capability to fly airplanes and satellites over the
ice
sheets is revolutionizing glaciology.
The satellites are reporting a wealth of observations that are revealing new hidden facts about the
ice
sheets continuously.
For instance, we have observations of the size of the Greenland
ice
sheet every month going back to 2002.
You can see that some areas of the
ice
sheet melt or lose
ice
in the summer.
Other areas experience snowfall or gain
ice
back in the winter.
We never thought that an
ice
sheet could lose mass into the ocean this quickly.
Since these measurements began in 2002, the
ice
sheet has lost so much
ice
that if that water were piled up on our smallest continent, it would drown Australia knee-deep.
Well, under the
ice
lies the bedrock.
We used radar to image the hills, valleys, mountains and depressions that the
ice
flows over.
Hidden under the
ice
sheet are channels the size of the Grand Canyon that funnel
ice
and water off of Greenland and into the ocean.
The reason that radar can reveal the bedrock is that
ice
is entirely transparent to radar.
Go home and put an
ice
cube in the microwave.
It won't melt, because microwaves, or radar, pass straight through the
ice
without interacting.
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