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This new eight-episode series from “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” offers an epic, extraordinary adventure in the Great North. An expedition to one of the largest glaciers in Greenland: the Petermann Glacier.
As COP 28 has just opened in Dubai, the issue of melting ice is more than ever at the heart of the debates. Head to the Far North for an expedition to one of Greenland’s largest glaciers. The Petermann Glacier is a solitary monster, a white desert 70 kilometers long, 20 kilometers wide, which may hold the keys to our future.
At the head of this expedition, Eric Rignot, a Franco-American glaciologist who collaborates with NASA and embarks on an experiment that has never before been attempted in the far North: introducing a submarine capable of diving into the waters of the fjord to understand what is happening “under the ice”. For two years, the teams of “1:15 p.m. Sunday” (X, #1:15 p.m.) followed Eric Rignot and his companions in his “ice struggle”. What impact could these discoveries have for our future?
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Eric Rignot discovers the Princess Elisabeth station. A “zero emissions” Belgian station, capable of producing all its electricity and heat without using any fossil fuels in one of the most hostile places in the world. Solar panels and wind turbines are sufficient for its daily operation. This is the ultimate adventure of Alain Hubert: a Belgian explorer who conquered the poles from North to South.
If Eric is interested in this station it is because it could constitute a base camp for his future scientific expeditions. It is only 150 kilometers from the grounding line and Eric is already dreaming of drilling through the ice over 600 meters to slide his underwater robot inside.
A series signed Florent Muller, Benjamine Jeunehomme and Gaël Pouvreau.
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