Turns out, a frozen desert is a great place to hunt for meteoric debris.
“Going on an adventure exploring unknown areas is exciting, but we also had to deal with the fact that the reality on the ground is much more difficult than the beauty of satellite images,” said mission leader Vinciane Debaille from ULB,The trip was timed for late December, when it is summer in Antarctica and a balmy 14° F.
The researchers with their 16.7-pound find. White helmet: Maria Schönbächler. Green helmet: Maria Valdes. Black helmet: Ryoga Maeda. Orange helmet: Vinciane Debaille. CREDIT: Courtesy of Maria Valdes. The five meteorites will now be analyzed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The team divided up some of the sediment that potentially contains tiny“Studying meteorites helps us better understand our place in the universe,”
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