... The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument floating high over Antarctica. ... an altitude of about 23.4 miles (37.6 kilometers) above Antarctica using a helium-filled balloon about as large as the interior ...
... a ureilite-class meteorite found in the Frontier Mountains of Antarctica, and related minerals were found in Dhofar-280, a ... been transported around the globe easily, so it may be possible to trace the event in ice cores from Greenland or Antarctica ...
... This alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth also resulted in a partial solar eclipse on September 13, visible only from parts of Africa and Antarctica. ...
... This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara," says team member John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. ...
... It's astounding that Cassini found a region of current geological activity on an icy moon that we would expect to be frigidly cold, especially down at this moon's equivalent of Antarctica," Pappalardo says. ...
... Writer Steve Nadis explains how these scientists use instruments in far-off places from stations in Antarctica to satellites in space to study the role of subatomic particles, namely neutrinos, in the Big Bang theory of the universe. ...