On Thin Ice - Popular Science

1. In 2005, a European space agency sent a rocket into space to measure the polar ice. The rocket ended up crashing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, due to failures. Now, in the late February, they are deciding on sending another one into space to take even deeper measurements of the polar ice, which is costing them $207 million to re-do. Results are going to announced in the late future.

2. I find this really important because if we were to research into them deeply, we would be able to find traces of ancient and maybe even extinct animal DNA. Also, we may be able to find a solution to making ice that won't melt as fast.

3. The world will (hopefully) gain a new glimpse of life as we know it, because the satellite would be sent out in late February to gather information.

4. One of the main setbacks of this project would be if the satellite crashed again, like the last time.