Scientists have successfully extracted the world’s oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, the team members drilled 2800 metres into the ice until they hit bedrock below, before returning the sample.
Over the next few years, these samples will be meticulously analysed at laboratories across Europe, including at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), revealing a climate and atmospheric record stretching back more than 1.5 million years.
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