{"id":89367,"date":"2019-04-09T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-oldest-ice-on-earth-may-be-hiding-1-5-miles-beneath-antarctica"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:42:58","slug":"the-oldest-ice-on-earth-may-be-hiding-1-5-miles-beneath-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-oldest-ice-on-earth-may-be-hiding-1-5-miles-beneath-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Ice on Earth May Be Hiding 1.5 Miles Beneath Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oldest-ice-on-earth-may-be-hiding-1-5-miles-beneath-antarctica2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/21677-antarctica-facts.html\">Antarctica<\/a>, where they will drill more than 1.5 miles (2.7 kilometers) below the surface of the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next five years, the \u201cBeyond EPICA-Oldest Ice\u201d mission will work at a remote location known as \u201cLittle Dome C\u201d to start drilling for ice up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/40962-oldest-ice-core-in-antarctica.html\">1.5 million years old<\/a>, the team announced today (April 9) at the meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIce cores are unique for geosciences because they are an archive of the paleo-atmosphere,\u201d said Beyond EPICA\u2019s coordinator Olaf Eisen of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64039-photos-antarctica.html\">Antarctica: The Ice-Covered Bottom of the World (Photos)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65188-antarctica-drilling-oldest-ice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica, where they will drill more than 1.5 miles (2.7 kilometers) below the surface of the ice. Over the next five years, the \u201cBeyond EPICA-Oldest Ice\u201d mission will work at a remote location known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89367","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}