The video shows the drilling process at the camp at Little Dome C, near the Concordia Antarctic station in January 2023.

An international team of researchers has collected 50,000-year-old ice samples from a depth of 2,651 feet in Antarctica.

The extracted ice core samples will reportedly aid the team of experts go about 1.5 million years back in time and reconstruct past temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project campaign took place at an area near Dome C, East Antarctica. from November 2022 to January 2023.
Additionally, the project was reportedly funded with EUR 11 million (GBP 9,8 million) by the European Commission in 2019, and is estimated to last for seven years.

Upon arrival, the team reportedly faced opening operations difficulties due to severe weather conditions, but after organising the work in two shifts drilling activities kept going for 16 hours per day continuously.

Located about 34 kilometres (21 miles) away from the French-Italian station Concordia, Dome C is considered one of the most extreme places on Earth.
Reports claimed that the area surrounding Dome C is thought to be one of the most promising targets for recovering a continuous ice-core record spanning more than a million years.

Project Coordinator and Director of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council Carlo Barbante said in a statement: "This season has been intense but brought amazing results thanks to the team's gigantic efforts. They worked tirelessly for two months at the Little Dome C camp. They first tested the equipment, and then progressed down to the remarkable depth of 808 metres [2,651 feet] and collected high quality ice cores. This will be the starting point for the next Beyond EPICA drilling season."

This footage was filmed and produced January 2023.

The video shows the drilling process at the camp at Little Dome C, near the Concordia Antarctic station in January 2023.

An international team of researchers has collected 50,000-year-old ice samples from a depth of 2,651 feet in Antarctica.

The extracted ice core samples will reportedly aid the team of experts go about 1.5 million years back in time and reconstruct past temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project campaign took place at an area near Dome C, East Antarctica. from November 2022 to January 2023.
Additionally, the project was reportedly funded with EUR 11 million (GBP 9,8 million) by the European Commission in 2019, and is estimated to last for seven years.

Upon arrival, the team reportedly faced opening operations difficulties due to severe weather conditions, but after organising the work in two shifts drilling activities kept going for 16 hours per day continuously.

Located about 34 kilometres (21 miles) away from the French-Italian station Concordia, Dome C is considered one of the most extreme places on Earth.
Reports claimed that the area surrounding Dome C is thought to be one of the most promising targets for recovering a continuous ice-core record spanning more than a million years.

Project Coordinator and Director of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council Carlo Barbante said in a statement: "This season has been intense but brought amazing results thanks to the team's gigantic efforts. They worked tirelessly for two months at the Little Dome C camp. They first tested the equipment, and then progressed down to the remarkable depth of 808 metres [2,651 feet] and collected high quality ice cores. This will be the starting point for the next Beyond EPICA drilling season."