Controllers had been trying to get an icesample into TEGA for weeks but struggled with a scraper and rasp on the probe's robotic arm -- items designed to grind the ice for study -- Boynton said.
So, its of no surprise, when looking at long term ice core sample and ocean core deposits, they indicate as the Earth warms, so does the carbon footprint from the increase carbon produced high in the atmosphere.
The plan to drill through the Antarctic ice-sheet to sample the hidden waters of Lake Ellsworth in December involves BAS and NOC and other bodies and is led by a professor from Bristol University.
Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.
This week the team decided to use a scoop on the arm to dig up a sample of dirt and found it contained about 1 percent water ice, NASA researchers said.