Greenland Odyssey

The scientists are drilling deep into the ice, which is 1.5 miles thick, the accumulation of 130,000 years of snow.
Hakan Ludwigson for TIME

The Experiments
The scientists are drilling deep into the ice, which is 1.5 miles thick, the accumulation of 130,000 years of snow, to help them analyze the last few hundred years of climatic history.

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