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Scientists from ULB and VUB soon in Antarctica to Collect Meteorites

Scientists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will head to the Belgica Mountains in Antarctica on Sunday to collect meteorites and samples of blue ice, the ULB announced on Monday in a press release. The team will stay in the mountains until the beginning of January 2025.

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Scientists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) will head to the Belgica Mountains in Antarctica on Sunday to collect meteorites and samples of blue ice, the ULB announced on Monday in a press release. The team will stay in the mountains until the beginning of January 2025.

Antarctica is certainly the best place on Earth to collect meteorites,” said the ULB in the press release, specifying that two thirds of those collected on the blue planet come from this continent. Read more (orignal article in French).

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ULTIMO team posing in the field collecting meteorites

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Arnoux Beaked Whale in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica.

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