Space Daily August 31, 2026 • 17:04

Antarctica holds a continuous record of the air going back 800,000 years, locked in bubbles inside a two-mile column of ice that scientists drilled out one section at a time, so that every atmosphere for eight hundred millennia now sits catalogued on shelves in - Space Daily

As ice ages, atmospheric bubbles trapped within compress into denser form—creating an archive of Earth's climate so detailed that scientists can now read the exact composition of air from the time of Neanderthals.

The way ordinary weather turns into a scientific record is one of the more genuinely elegant things Antarctica does. Snow falls on a particular corner of the East Antarctic plateau, roughly a thousan… [+7849 chars]

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Antarctica holds a continuous record of the air going back 800,000 years, locked in bubbles inside a two-mile column of ice that scientists drilled out one section at a time, so that every atmosphere for eight hundred millennia now sits catalogued on shelves in - Space Daily

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