A chat with Loredana Bessone of the European Space Agency about the encounter between two worlds, caves and space, speleologists and astronauts.
Glaciers like ice caps are huge databases for multidisciplinary studies, just to list a few: glaciology, physics, hydrology, microbiology, biochemistry.
A few days ago, the La Venta team returned to Italy and carried out the first speleological exploration of the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall as part of the "Hraun" project for the study of the evolution of lava tubes.
Read more: The exploration of the Fagradalsfjall volcano is concluded
After a long pause due to the pandemic, we slowly begin to resume activities in the sign of a new and found normality made of green passes, tampons, masks and sanitizing gels.
The first international glacier caving camp took place in 2014 in Switzerland, on the Gorner glacier, as part of the cross-collaborative project "Inside the glaciers" which La Venta had also enthusiastically joined.
Read more: Looking Ahead: New Technologies for Gorner Glacier Prospecting
Edited by Tullio Bernabei, Antonio De Vivo, Paolo Forti, Francesco Lo Mastro, Natalino Russo
At the beginning of the third millennium, something unique on our planet was discovered in the depths of a silver mine in northern Mexico. A hidden cave, buried 300 meters below the surface, where nature has created an extraordinary treasure for hundreds of thousands of years...
