Cold Scientists
Mar 01, 2021
2 minutes
art by Mark Brewer
Climatologists: Ice Cores
As snow falls, it snags gases and dust from the air. Thousands of years of snowfalls lie in layers on Antarctica. Using hollow drills like big straws, climatologists pull out long tubes of layered, smooshed snow, called ice cores.
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