Glaciers and the world's ice sheets, greenland and antarctica, they are all formed from year after year of snow building up. Glacial ices could have lots of little bits of air in it. And besice ardises, which helped to givisdollar. You see the scientists drilling down and taking out those super long cores. They at that point, they can actually find air, if you want to call it that, hundreds of thousands of years ago.
How do you make snow? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn some cold, hard facts about snow and ice with atmospheric scientist and snow maker Peter Veals, PhD and glacial scientist Twila Moon, PhD.
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