Here's the cartoon on the left there.

And we drilled in the Ross Sea.

I remember March the 15th, 2000.

If you include the coastal ice shelves, you can see that the Ross Ice Shelf it's the big one down here the Ross Ice Shelf is the size of France.

That's the Ross Sea Ice Shelf on the right there.

This is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice shelf.

It's the ANDRlLL project.

Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves.

These are the same kinds of pools that formed here, on this ice shelf in Antarctica.

It can only get there if it's carried out by ice.

But what makes the Ross Sea important is the vast sea of pack ice that in the spring and summer provides a wealth of phytoplankton and krill that supports what, till recently, has been a virtually intact near shore ecosystem.

Ten years ago was a seminal trip, where we explored that big iceberg, B 15, the largest iceberg in history, that broke off the Ross Ice Shelf.

If you see the breakup of ice shelves along the Antarctic peninsula,

Late 1911, early 1912, there was a race to be the first to the South Pole the heart of the Antarctic continent.

in fact, he was one of the first to explore the arctic circle, which is a big deal.

The Rack

And shelf after shelf of toys and...

Bookshelf

Ice and Glaciers

And that's where they do their experiments, and then the balloon, the payload, is brought down.

Where do you keep the horseradish, frisby?

It was just laying on a shelf in the planetarium...

The shelf, sir?

So what that means is, what it tells us is that the Ross Sea region, this ice shelf, melted back and formed anew about 35 times.

Starting on January 31 , 2002 in a period of 35 days this ice shelf completely disappeared.

Yeah...

Did Voldemort ever make the shelf, sir?

Decorative Ice

Ice

Put it back.

You know that?

Lieutenant Jiao Dapeng,

From my own bookshelf?

Report to your rack. You're ill.

Return to your rack.

The scientists who study these ice shelves were absolutely astonished when they were looking at these images.

Iceman?

Ice.

Get me ice.

There is an album on the shelf.

I looked in the cupboard.

The IDs of the books in the bookshelf.

You fell? Uh.

Shelves in the closet...

Clean the racks.