Geiger: Mission Meteorite

Why look for meteorites in Antartica? In Science News for Students, Beth Geiger explains: It’s easy to see them against all the white snow and ice. It’s not easy to work in that environment, though. Beth reports on the travels and travails of the...

Williams: One Hundred Years of Scottitude

David B. Williams uses the centennial of Robert F. Scott’s final journal entry to explain what is happening to the bodies of Scott and his team who froze to death near the South Pole in 1912. They are in a tent in a snow cairn that is slowly traveling toward the...