Ernest Shackleton

And it's I guess it's.

It's embodied mostly by Shackleton and Amundsen.

Anyway, so she says this is the sort of thing that unites all the polar explorers.

And then she writes this.

And on the 11th of May, 2022, the team of international scientists did just that.

Named after the ship that carried Ernest Shackleton's crew in their 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole and cross Antarctica, the Endurance mission launched its sub-orbital rocket to an altitude of 768 kilometers, collecting data over 518 of those kilometers before splashing down 19 minutes later in the Greenland Sea.

During its flight, the instrument measured a change of 0.55 volts in electric potential between 250 kilometers and 768 kilometers.

Space scientist Glyn Collinson, the principal investigator for NASA's Endurance mission, said, "Even though half a volt is almost nothing," again, almost about the strength of a watch battery, "it's just the right amount to explain Earth's polar wind." This first ever direct measurement of Earth's electric field marked a pivotal moment in our understanding of this fundamental planet-wide energy force.

On this trip, the historic one of the expedition, only three went.

These were Captain Scott, Lieutenant Shackleton, and Dr. Wilson.

They had dogs with them at the start, but the animals grew sick and weak, and were at last quite useless in dragging the sledges.

The three harnessed themselves to the sledges in place of the dogs, and handicapped with this weight of 240 pounds each, they pushed on until they reached 82 degrees 17 minutes south.

The route gradually ascended as the party progressed until a level unbroken plain was reached the altitude of which was 9,000 feet.

The coastline could be seen stretching away due south to the 83rd parallel.

On the way back Lieutenant Shackleton unfortunately ruptured a blood vessel during an unusually heavy strain at the sledges.

The strength of all the party was severely taxed by the hardships of the journey, and the sudden incapacitating of one of the three was a matter of grave anxiety.

On this trip, the historic one of the expedition, only three went.

These were Captain Scott, Lieutenant Shackleton, and Dr. Wilson.

They had dogs with them at the start, but the animals grew sick and weak, and were at last quite useless in dragging the sledges.

The three harnessed themselves to the sledges in place of the dogs, and handicapped with this weight of two hundred and forty pounds each, they pushed on until they reached eighty-two degrees seventeen minutes South.

The route gradually ascended as the party progressed until a level, unbroken plain was reached, the altitude of which was nine thousand feet.

The coastline could be seen stretching away due south to the eighty-third parallel.

On the way back, Lieutenant Shackleton unfortunately ruptured a blood vessel during an unusually heavy strain at the sledges.

The strength of all the party was severely taxed by the hardships of the journey, and the sudden incapacitating of one of the three was a matter of grave anxiety.