Antarctic Meteorites Are Going, Going, May Soon Be Gone
If warming ice gobbles up meteorites, science may lose a cheap source of space rocks.
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If warming ice gobbles up meteorites, science may lose a cheap source of space rocks.
Antarctica is a wonderland of stardust.
Meteorites are disappearing into the Antarctic ice as a result of the climate crisis, putting them out of reach of scientists, according to a new study.
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet
Meteorites are disappearing into the Antarctic ice as a result of the climate crisis, putting them out of reach of scientists, according to a new study.