Hot on the trail of Antarctic meteorites
Each year, scientists scour the frozen continent for space rocks
Beth Geiger
Jan 11, 2018 — 6:45 am EST
Each year, groups of scientists with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) project spend weeks camping on ice fields in Antarctica. Using snowmobiles, they travel about looking to find and bring back meteorites. Here's a group that has just met with success.
It’s a clear summer day in the Transantarctic Mountains. Being January, the temperature here in the vast emptiness of Antarctica is a relatively balmy minus 18 degrees Celsius (0 Fahrenheit). Geologist Stanley Love normally works in Houston, Texas. Now he and six others scientists were zipping across the dazzling white ice on snowmobiles. They were loaded with tents, stoves, sleeping bags and food. For the next six weeks, this team would be camping on Earth’s coldest, most hostile continent. Harsh? Absolutely. But it’s the only way to accomplish their mission: finding meteorites.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/hot-trail-antarctic-meteorites
