Tag: European Research Council

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Drilling in Antarctica to take bedrock samples from beneath the ice sheet

  

  Two new research projects – in partnership with British Antarctic Survey engineers – will drill deeper than ever before in Antarctica and in space. The first project, called INCISED, is led by the University of Durham, funded by the European Research Council, and has set its sights on the Antarctic. It will drill bedrock from beneath the polar ice sheets, with the goal being to retrieve scientific samples.