Despite Thin Ice, Research Ship Finds Its Home In Frozen Floe For The Next Year
An ambitious Arctic expedition has reached a milestone. Researchers have found an ice floe to freeze into, from which they'll study Arctic systems from a ship and an observatory they'll construct.
One of the most ambitious polar science expeditions in history just passed a critical hurdle.
After months of monitoring the ice by satellite and several days of surveying specific ice floes in the central Arctic Ocean, the scientists of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) have selected the piece of ice they plan to freeze into for the next year.
Researchers struggled initially to find suitable ice, encountering extremely thin ice conditions at many of the floes they
