The sounds of an Antarctic glacier

Peter Neff is part of a team drilling ice cores from glaciers in Antarctica to look at how the climate has changed. But after they’ve done their work, they have a little fun dropping chunks of ice down the bore holes to make really cool noises (sound on, headphones recommended).

Sound ON

When #science is done, it’s fun to drop ice down a 90 m deep borehole in an #Antarctic #glacier. So satisfying when it hits the bottom.

Happy hump day. pic.twitter.com/dQtLPWQi7T

— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018

Oh, that *peeewwww* as it hits the bottom! See also the wonderful sounds of black ice skating, an incredible photo of the black ice covering an Antarctic lake, and “Whumph”: the sound of settling Antarctic snow.

• Antarctica
• audio
• Peter Neff