2006年4月由日本国家极地研究所冰川研究工作者采自南极洲的冰年龄为100万年。与已揭露的最近65 000年大气动力学的埃比克(Эпик)计划所获得的钻探资料相比,采自深度超过3 000 m钻孔的该冰岩心将已有的气候研究史扩展了20 000年。但是预期,这个新记录将被打破,国为很快将获 April 2006 Ice collected from Antarctica by glaciers researchers at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan is one million years old. Compared with the drilling data obtained from the exposed Эпик program of the last 65,000 years of aerodynamics, this ice core collected from a borehole deeper than 3 000 m extends the existing history of climate research by 20 000 years. However, it is expected that this new record will be broken and the country will soon receive