Antarctica holds a continuous record of the air going back 800,000 years, locked in bubbles inside a two-mile column of ice that scientists drilled out one section at a time, so that every atmosphere for eight hundred millennia now sits catalogued on shelves in - Space Daily
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As ice ages, atmospheric bubbles trapped within compress into denser form—creating an archive of Earth’s climate so detailed that scientists can now read the exact composition of air from the time of Neanderthals.
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