Cosmologists spends month searching for meteorites in Anarctica
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
Every austral summer, a group of volunteers heads off to a remote region of Antarctica to set up a field camp on the ice. For the next month, they search the ice and nearby debris piles left by glaciers for dark rocks that might be extraterrestrial in origin. The program is called the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET).