A span of Norse scientist are in the middle of along expeditionover the Arctic wintertime , dwell out of a ground-effect machine on a rove ice floe . There is no Lord’s Day , it is freeze , and yet the scientist seem to be have a grand ol’ prison term doing science .
“ multitude have postulate me how I was hold up to belt down the time , ” Norwegian geoscientist Yngve KristoffersentoldNew Scientistin a riveting clause about the outing . “ There is no time to kill . We are working our butts off . And amusement ? As a scientist my entertainment is to see the data point amount in . This is plenitude for me . ”
As their ice floe drifts northward , the scientists are contemplate the seabed underneath , taking videos , deposit samples , and a bevy of other measurements . short is known about this remote region , which was 20 degree F warmer and home to many more ocean animate being 50 million year ago .
Kristoffersen and his fellow Arctic researcher Audun Tholfsen have been living on a large crank ice floe in the Arctic since the end of August . It ’s tough even for icebreakers to get through the Arctic winter , but hovercraft , it turns out , areperfect for Arctic traveling . A rubber skirt pumped full of air sustain the craft aloft , let it to skim over the ice . The researchers will be using their ground-effect machine , named Sabvabaa , to zoom all over the ice ice floe to take their sample distribution .
The duo are huddled down with 18 calendar month worth of fuel and food for thought for now . If all goes according to design , aplane will pick Tholfsen upin March or April and bring a research worker to supervene upon him . Kristoffersen , however , is go to stay for the whole class . I intend , why leave when the Arctic weather is just begin to look up ? [ New Scientist ]
Hovercraft picture via Audun Tholfsen
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