探索从地球深处的气候变化速度

Author: Katherine Lehmuller,October2016

Beautiful and majestic – The Dolomites. Protected as a heritage site by the United Nation's UNESCO division, and proclaimed to be among the most beautiful mountains of the world, they still hold unexplored treasures in parks such as the South Tyrolean Fanes-Senes-Braies. “Inside the Glaciers”, an ongoing project sponsored by La Venta, explores the details of the inner chamber of one of the Italian Alps’ largest abysses located within the Fanes park. The team uses a Leica Geosystems laser scanner and Leica Cyclone software to pick up the details.

There are scientific exploration teams and then there are the truly dedicated exploration teams. The latter is how one could describe the association La Venta Esplorazoni Geografiche based in Treviso, Italy. Lead by geologist Francesco Sauro, who was recently selected by TIME magazine as one of 10 Next Generation Leaders, the La Venta team organises and runs various geographical and environmental exploration projects, such as “Inside the Glaciers.” The goal of La Venta is to create awareness of Earth's natural wonders, locally and globally, in order to conserve these unknown treasures.

在25,000公顷的扇形赛车场公园内，Conturines位于白云岩中心的一座山上。在这座山上的深处，海拔3,000米，是Cenote的深渊。

The entrance to the glacier abyss first presented itself after a sinkhole collapsed in the late 20th century. Never before touched by human activities, the discovery of this cave is one of major importance to researchers. Studying the morphological evolution of ice masses and microfossils found here will help researchers to better understand environmental changes happening to our world.

由于该洞穴的入口位于3,000多米的位置，因此天气状况会带来困难，并试图探索深渊的尝试失败了。最终，经过二十年，配备了Leica Geosystems Laser Scanner和Leica Cyclone软件的团队可以记录最内部的腔室。

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