In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside it

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In January 2025, an international drilling team at Little Dome C in East Antarctica reached the rock beneath the ice sheet. The hole was 2,800 metres deep. Inside the recovered core was a continuous climate record extending back at least 1.2 million years. The detail I keep returning to is the air. Snow fell on [...] The post In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside it appeared first on Space Daily .