“’We made fast progress in a few days,’ Rex told The Associated Press. ‘It’s breathtaking — at times we had open water as far as the eye could see.’”
Polarstern approaches the North Pole and passes ice easy to sail through. Covered with melt ponds and melting from the bottom, the sea ice is no real barrier for the research icebreaker on her way to search for a new ice floe to study the onset and early freezing on the final MOSAiC leg.
“’We made fast progress in a few days,’ Rex told The Associated Press. ‘It’s breathtaking — at times we had open water as far as the eye could see.’”
