The mystery
Ice cores are like tree rings for the sky. Aarti reads bubbles that are thousands of years old.
Week 3 · Ice · Coming soon
Melting Mysteries
Aarti says
Explorer, I am holding a tube of ice with tiny bubbles inside. Each bubble is a puff of very, very old sky.
This mystery unlocks soon
The animation is still being drawn, and this mystery unlocks soon — but here is the whole story as a narrated storyboard. Press play.
Storyboard previewScene 1 of 7Aarti (voice-over)
Up here, the ice has kept a diary for a thousand years — and it's finally opening the pages.
Drone shot over a blue glacier; Aarti's cybernetic boots crunch the ice.
New technology
The core reader: a light that shines through ice and counts the years.
What you'll do
Make your own ice-core stripe picture, one band for every year you can imagine.
Your turn, Explorer
This mystery's activity opens with the episode. Meanwhile you can design Chatti's avatar — that one is ready now.
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