Use the blanket blanket Alps

The latest photos of the Alps show the scientific effort to protect one of the world's oldest glaciers from melting, by covering it with a blanket.

In every summer, Swiss scientists are not afraid to travel on distant roads and use thick blankets stretching kilometers to cover the Rhone glacier , the source of the Rhone river in the center of the Alps. Switzerland, which is in a sharp decline in 150 years.

In addition to protecting the tape from further loss, the initiative also allows visitors to witness an impressive ancient ice under a unique perspective. Researchers have drilled a tunnel inside the glacier, enough for a person to walk, allowing people to go back in time and enter a closed world for thousands of years.

The result of isotope analysis shows that the Rhone glacier is an ancient structure at least 11,500 years old.