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在冰层上开展钻探是一项乏味的工作,因为它需要花费数年的时间在野外开展工作,以便获取长长的冰芯样品,这些样品中保存着数十万年来地球气候变化的连续信息。而现在,科学家们有了一种获得地球漫长历史信息的更快方法。因为急着想要获得距今150万年前的水冰样品,气候科学家们开发出一种新的快速冰层钻探方法。这项快速钻探新技术可以在短短几周内穿透数千米厚的南极冰原,届时科学家们将从最深处的冰层中获取样品,
Drilling on the ice is a tedious task as it takes years to work in the field in order to obtain long ice core samples that contain continuous information on the Earth’s climate over hundreds of thousands of years . And now scientists have a faster way to get a long history of the Earth. Because of a rush to get water ice samples dating back 1.5 million years ago, climate scientists have developed a new rapid method of ice drilling. The rapid drilling technology can penetrate thousands of meters thick Antarctic ice sheet in just a few weeks, when scientists will get samples from the deepest ice,