Umezaki said the ice sample may provide important insights into climate change because it contains ancient air that was trapped in bubbles as the snows piled up deeper and deeper above.

梅崎友治还表示，由于冰芯内部的气泡中含有百万年以前的气体，因此可向人们提供有关气候变化的重要信息。

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One is in the U.S.at the Centers for Disease Control, where there is a sample of variola, which is kept, you know, frozen on ice in a heavily guarded facility.

一个在美国的疾病控制中心,那有一支天花病毒的样本,冰冻后置于重重保护之下

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Controllers had been trying to get an ice sample 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.

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The US space agency (Nasa) and the Russian academy of sciences are planning to break through the ice to sample the water for life.

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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.

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