NASA’s Grover debuts on Greenland’s Ice Sheet
NASA’s Grover new Earth-bound autonomous, solar-operated robot, that carries a ground-penetrating radar to examine the layers of Greenland’s ice sheet. Image © Lora Koenig / NASA Goddard
NASA Rover Grover set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA Rover GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, is on its way to Greenland for over a month of testing on the ice-covered environment.
Ice needles form a frozen lake
In the video you can see millions of needle-like pieces of ice jumping up from the shore of Medicine Lake, in Minnesota. Watch the video…
Psychedelic ice swirls
A psychedelic ice swirls off the North Japan coast, photographed by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield from the Space Station. Tweeted on April 19, 2013. Larger image
Two Earth like Exoplanets found
An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Kepler mission, has announced the discovery of the first small, potentially rocky planets. Named Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, orbiting in the Habitable Zone of Kepler-62 star, that is slightly smaller and cooler than our own Sun. Image © David A. Aguilar (CfA)
IceBridge Flight over Baffin Island
A flight over the stunning landscape of eastern Greenland‘s Geikie Peninsula and a survey of a Canadian ice cap. IceBridge closed out the fourth week of its Arctic campaign. Soon the mission will return to Thule to finish up Arctic flights for 2013. The image captures ice-covered fjord on Baffin Island with Davis Strait in the background. Image © NASA/Michael Studinger
IceBridge mission- P-3B starts the day
IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented 3D view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. Image © NASA/Goddard/Michael Studinger
Submarine Vehicle Probes Beneath an Ice Sheet
For the exploration of our planet and of others, researchers sent a probe under the Antarctic ice in January 2013. For nearly a decade, engineers have crafted various tools and methods to see what lurks below the thick ice sheets of Antarctica, Greenland, and other ice-covered landscapes.
Audi RS6 at 208 mph… on ice
The new world record for fastest car on ice was achieved by Audi RS6 and Nokian Tyres (Hakkapeliitta 8 winter tire), inventor of the winter tyre, when test driver Janne Laitinen drove at a speed of 335.713 kilometres per hour (208.602 mph) on the ice of the Gulf of Bothnia in freezing winter weather.
Polar Umbrella Buoyant Skyscraper Protects the Polar Ice Caps
The Polar Umbrella Buoyant Skyscraper Protects and Regenerates the Polar Ice Caps by Derek Pirozzi, United States, won the first place at the evolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition.
