Polar Research

Ice Structures

Ice has sufficient mobile protons to be successfully imaged with conventional MRI. Notice the striking correlation between the two images. 
 

Ice Structures
These data were acquired using a BioSpec 70/20.

Top left: Drill cores taken from arctic ice. Photo courtesy Ch. Held.

Top right: An ice core imaged with 3D-MRI.

Bottom left: A destructive optical thin section.

Bottom right: An MR image of the same section (non-destructive).
 

Courtesy of C. Bock, HO. Pörtner et al.
Alfred-Wegner-Inst. for Polar & Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany