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  • 7/10/2025
What if you drilled a hole to the bottom of Antarctica? That’s what these scientists did right here!

Using a giant drill like this one, they cut a ring into the ice, creating a core in the middle.
As they drilled deeper, they’re traveling back in time, reaching ice that formed an estimated 1.2 million years ago…

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00:00What if you drilled a hole to the bottom of Antarctica?
00:02That's what these scientists did here.
00:03Using a giant drill like this one,
00:05they cut a ring into the ice, creating a core in the middle.
00:08And as they drill deeper, they're traveling back in time,
00:10reaching ice that formed long ago.
00:12And trapped inside that ice are particles from the atmosphere,
00:15telling us what Earth was like back then.
00:17But these scientists kept drilling for more than 200 days until finally...
00:22they hit bedrock.
00:23And piece by piece, they pulled out the oldest continuous ice core ever,
00:27estimated to be over 1.2 million years old.
00:31It's so old that scientists think it might help tell us
00:33when Antarctica first became covered in ice,
00:35and how microorganisms trapped at the bottom developed.
00:38If you need more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe.

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