It has been nearly a month since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar, and its ultimate whereabouts remain unclear. The complex international effort of searching for the plane in a remote stretch of the South Indian Ocean raises the question of what would happen if a plane were to go down in the Arctic: who would coordinate the necessary search and rescue teams, and where should they be based? Geographer Mia Bennett tried to answer this question on her blog, Cryopolitics.
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With glaciers firing off more icebergs into the Atlantic than ever before,
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SunViewer posted this amazing photo by Vladimir Scheglov, taken on January 19 at the Kupol mine in the Chukotka region of Russia, just after a Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth to produce some beautiful northern lights. He’s like "whatevs, I will just chillax and look cute here."
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Here comes a new CPU cooler from Arctic, the Freezer i11. Supporting only Intel (LGA1150/1155/1156/2011) socket, this side-flow CPU cooler is packed with three 6mm Direct Touch copper heatpipes, 45 aluminum fins and a 92mm PWM fan that operates at 500 to 2000 RPM. The Freezer i11 is available now for a retail price of 19.90 Euro (about $27) and comes bundled with MX-4 thermal grease. [Product Page]
Being more of a tropical person, I’m not the sort you would catch exploring the Arctic wilds. However, there are a number of researchers out there that do spend time doing sciencey stuff in the Arctic. Last summer a group of researchers exploring Canada’s Ward Hunt Island made a very cool discovery.
The scientists happened on a manmade rock cairn and inside the rocks was a bottle with a letter in it. When they pulled the letter out of the bottle, they realized it was from an American geologist named Paul T. Walker and he had left the letter behind in 1959.
The letter was no cry for help, rather it was a request for anyone who came upon the letter to take a scientific measurement and forward it to Walker and a colleague for their records. The request was to measure the distance of a rock formation from the face of the glacier nearby. When the letter was placed in the rocks, it was 168 feet from the glacier face. When the letter was found this summer, the rock was about 333 feet from the glacier face.
Sadly, Walker never received the information he requested. Shortly after he placed the letter in the rock formation he suffered a seizure and was flown out of the Arctic and died in a hospital a few months later.
Interestingly enough, after discovering the note, the explorers returned the message to its bottle – adding their own note they hope may someday be found in the future.
[via CBC.ca]
Finding a message in a bottle in a remote part of the world is something that you might think would only happen in a work of fiction. However, that is … Continue reading
Have you spent the past decade believing that Canada is nothing more than our friendly, innocuous neighbor to the north? Good—that’s what they wanted you to think. In reality, Canada has given the past 10 years of its life and $200 million dollars in taxpayer money to file the ultimate claim: over 1 million square miles of Arctic seafloor that, yes, includes the North Pole.
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What you see here is some of the best footage shot from the front and back mounted cameras on one of the P-3B aircraft that runs NASA’s IceBridge missions. These vistas are from the spring mission over Greenland and the Arctic, but NASA’s going back for more this fall.
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If you think these images from the North Pole look more like a lake than the snow-covered expanse you’d expect, that because it is is—the North Pole has melted.
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Here comes another low-profile CPU cooler from Arctic, the Alpine 20 PLUS CO. Dedicated to the Intel LGA 2011 socket, this low-profile CPU cooler is packed with an aluminum heatsink and a 92mm PWM dual ball bearing fan that operates at 600 to 2200 RPM. The Alpine 20 PLUS CO is available now for EUR 14.50 MSRP (about $19). [Product Page]
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