The British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station is famous for discovering the hole inwards the ozone layer. The hole inwards the ozone layer was showtime discovered at Halley inwards 1985. Measurements of ozone accept been made at Halley every twelvemonth since the base of operations was established inwards 1956. Unfortunately a scissure inwards the Brunt Ice Shelf led to the station beingness abandoned over the wintertime of 2017. This evacuation of the station led to a gap inwards the station's historical records of ozone levels.
You tin larn to a greater extent than most the scissure inwards the Brunt Ice Shelf from ABC's fascinating The Making of an Iceberg. In 2013 a rift inwards the H2O ice shelf began keen close the British base. This rift has since grown then large that eventually it volition spell off a large expanse of the Brunt Ice Shelf together with create a gigantic iceberg. The ABC story makes role of satellite imagery to demo the perpetual drift of the glacier, the cracks that accept appeared inwards recent years together with the size of other large icebergs which accept calved off the Brunt Ice Shelf together with from other H2O ice shelves.
You tin larn to a greater extent than most the amazing Halley Research Station on the British Antarctic Survey website. Halley VI, the electrical flow station, is a huge construction consisting of 8 modules. Each of these modules are jacked upwards on large hydraulic legs which proceed the station to a higher house whatever accumulation of snow. Giant retractable skis on the bottom of these hydraulic legs permit the scientists to movement the station when cracks inwards the H2O ice shelf powerfulness threaten the station.
