Adrienne Block: The Thrill of Mapping the Last Unexplored Mountain Range
Posted by NOVAscienceNOW_Motherboard on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
That feeling of staring up into the great mind-numbing expanse of space that totally dissolves your sense of scale and yourself — that may have been the first time Adrienne Block fell in love. It wasn’t until college that she started looking down. Not at the universe in her fingernail, but the earth. The size of New York City, where she’s now getting her PhD in geology, can’t beat that of a mountain or an ice continent.
In this episode of Secret Life of Scientists, Adrienne finds both in the world’s last unexplored mountain range, Antarctica’s Gamburstev Mountains. Even though its buried under 4km of ice, she helped map it last year. It’s hard not to still feel her excitement. This was huge.
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