The icy region of the south pole is often called the most desolate place on earth. Harsh weather can shut down research operations for weeks at a time, but Dr. Aster and a team of scientists spent two years there from 2015 to 2016, measuring and listening to vibrations in sea ice.

The sound is not alien, its planetary. It is trapped seismic waves vibrating across the world’s largest expanse of floating ice.  

The Ross Ice Shelf, in Antarctica, is pancake flat, and the size of Texas. 

Dr. Aster and his team of scientists deployed the worlds largest network of seismometers in the snow dunes and in the compacted layers of snow called firn on the Ross Ice Shelf. 

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