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Photo of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Mountains Undergo Enhanced Impacts of Climate Change

by Nicholas Pepin, Carolina Adler, Sven Kotlarski and Elisa Palazzi 10 May 202211 May 2022

As climate change persists, amplified temperature increases in mountains and changes in precipitation will diminish snow and ice.

On the left: a view of Pluto, as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft. On the right: a close-up of an undulating region believed to have been formed by volcanoes that erupted icy material.
Posted inNews

Pluto’s Surface Was Recently Sculpted by Icy Volcanism

by Katherine Kornei 2 May 20222 May 2022

Geologically young regions of Pluto’s southern hemisphere were likely resurfaced by cryovolcanism, data from the New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

Aerial view of an ice stupa in Ladakh, India.
Posted inNews

Ice Towers May Hold Promise—and Water—for Some Cold, Dry Places

by Carolyn Wilke 1 April 20221 April 2022

A new study that cues into the formation of ice cones for storing glacial meltwater reveals how the structures can be built more efficiently and which climatic conditions work best.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Ice Begets Ice in the Clouds of the Southern Ocean

by Bjorn Stevens 17 March 202218 March 2022

Poorly understood ice multiplication processes, not aerosols, may determine the microphysical properties of climatologically important clouds over the Southern Ocean.

This aerial image shows two researchers exploring a sunken spring in the middle of a gray and white icy landscape. One researcher, dressed in blue, crouches inside a circular hole in the ice while a second researcher, dressed in black, stands to the left taking a photo.
Posted inNews

Lipids from Europa’s Ocean Could Be Detectable on the Surface

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 March 202210 March 2022

A super salty spring in the Canadian Arctic provides insights key to detecting life on a distant ocean world.

Parka-clad volunteers collecting a meteorite that fell in Antarctica
Posted inNews

Machine Learning Pinpoints Meteorite-Rich Areas in Antarctica

by Katherine Kornei 1 March 202210 May 2022

A new algorithm suggests that only a small fraction of meteorites present on the White Continent’s surface have been recovered to date.

A rock balances on a thin leg of ice.
Posted inNews

An Explanation, at Last, for Mysterious “Zen Stones”

by Katherine Kornei 2 November 202126 April 2022

Laboratory experiments re-create the thin, icy pedestals that support some rocks in nature, revealing that sublimation plays a key role in the formation of these rare and beautiful structures.

Scanning electron microscope images of an underformed and a deformed ice sample that clearly show differences in grain sizes.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Ice on a Deadline: More Stress Makes Ice Move Faster

by Nikolai Bagdassarov and Douglas R. Schmitt 19 October 202115 October 2021

Anyone seeing photographs of glacier and ice sheets from above clearly sees that they flow; recent laboratory tests on ice further reveal the conditions that control just how fast this happens.

A person’s gloved hand holds part of an ice core in which air bubbles can be seen, with the Antarctic landscape in the background. The ice in the core is up to 24,000 years old.
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Cutting to the Core

by Heather Goss 24 June 202114 April 2022

In our July issue, Eos looks at the collection, study, and storage of cores—from sediment drilled up from the age of the dinosaurs to tree rings as big as a house.

The moon appears at the top of the layers of atmosphere above the dark Earth. The orange-red glow is Earth’s troposphere, and the brown transitional layer is the tropopause.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Convective Transport Explains “Missing” Ice near the Tropical Tropopause

by David Shultz 10 May 202129 March 2022

Spaceborne lidar shows that more ice than expected is leaving the tropical tropopause layer in the atmosphere.

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