{"id":213393,"date":"2025-05-06T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-launch-23-million-arctic-mission-to-uncover-whats-hidden-beneath-the-ice-we-have-basically-no-information"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:10:30","slug":"scientists-launch-23-million-arctic-mission-to-uncover-whats-hidden-beneath-the-ice-we-have-basically-no-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-launch-23-million-arctic-mission-to-uncover-whats-hidden-beneath-the-ice-we-have-basically-no-information","title":{"rendered":"Scientists launch $23 million Arctic mission to uncover what\u2019s hidden beneath the ice: \u2018We have basically no information\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/emnadXNKMU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In what\u2019s being <a href=\"https:\/\/fondationtaraocean.org\/en\/schooner\/tara-polar-station\/\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> \u201can unprecedented scientific and human adventure at the North Pole,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2473611-a-floating-laboratory-will-uncover-the-secrets-of-arctic-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">$23 million<\/a> Tara Polar Station will be the home of a team of 18 people made up of scientists, artists, physicians, journalists, and sailors.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of this drifting science station is to gather data and perform research during the period from November to February, a part of the year that lacks observations because of the dangers inherent in a region of the world that is warming faster than anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have basically no information,\u201d Tara Ocean Foundation\u2019s Chris Bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2473611-a-floating-laboratory-will-uncover-the-secrets-of-arctic-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> New Scientist. \u201cWhich is alarming, considering it is such a fragile place and it is changing so rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what\u2019s being called \u201can unprecedented scientific and human adventure at the North Pole,\u201d the $23 million Tara Polar Station will be the home of a team of 18 people made up of scientists, artists, physicians, journalists, and sailors. The mission of this drifting science station is to gather data and perform research during the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}