Scientists are in a race to examine the extraterrestrial bodies that contain clues about Earth’s origins before they vanish
Field guide in a blue ice area during a mission to take ice samples.As global air temperatures increase, the number of Antarctic meteorites shrinks. By 2050, about a quarter of the 3-800,000 meteorites there will melt away, according to aThe team drew upon artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections to determine that, for every tenth of a degree increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites will disappear from Antarctica’s ice sheet.
While it may be technically possible to detect metals from the meteorites once they sink beneath the ice sheet, the approach has so far proved difficult. “This is somethingThe best hope to salvage the meteorites — and the data they contain — may be to increase collection efforts, says Veronica Tollenaar, one of the study’s co-authors and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. “It is a race against the clock,” she says.
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