Losing meteorites

Most of the meteorites in today’s collections have been found in Antarctica, making it a key region for planetary science. Writing in this issue, Tollenaar, Zekollari and colleagues show that surface melt due to climate change can lead to substantial portions of current meteorites sinking into the ice, leaving bare blue ice areas void of any of these precious space rocks, making them unavailable for science.

See Tollenaar  et al. and News & Views by Righter

Image: Veronica Tollenaar, Université libre de Bruxelles. Cover design: Valentina Monaco