7.2M views · 65K shares | Explore a penguin and seal colony in Antarctica as a snowstorm rolls in. | National Geographic | Facebook

Video shows a drilling rig’s journey inside an Antarctic glacier holding ancient ice estimated to be as much as 5 million years old. Photographer Martin Froger Silva spent weeks at a remote field camp in Antarctica with the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Oldest Ice Exploration team – which aims to record Earth’s climate and environmental history – drilling into a glacier. During the final day of his expedition, Froger Silva strapped a camera to the rig to record its decent down the

29K views · 426 reactions | China’s 40th Antarctic expedition team is heading home. For a year, they worked at Zhongshan Station, a Chinese research base in Antarctica. Now, it’s time to return. #China #Antarctic #expedition | CGTNEurope | Facebook