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Icebreaker Shirase

Members of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition aboard the icebreaker Shirase collect water off Totten Glacier in the Southern Ocean on March 24, 2025, to measure the melting of ice in the area. (Photo taken by accompanied journalist)

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Icebreaker Shirase

Members of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition aboard the icebreaker Shirase collect water off Totten Glacier in the Southern Ocean on March 6, 2025, to measure the melting of ice in the area. (Photo taken by accompanied journalist)

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Icebreaker Shirase

Members of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition aboard the icebreaker Shirase collect water off Totten Glacier in the Southern Ocean on March 6, 2025, to measure the melting of ice in the area.

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Icebreaker Shirase

Members of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition aboard the icebreaker Shirase collect water off Totten Glacier in the Southern Ocean on March 6, 2025, to measure the melting of ice in the area. (Photo taken by accompanied journalist)

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Antarctic expedition

Photo taken from a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter on Dec. 16, 2019, shows Japan's Antarctic research ship Shirase moving through Totten Glacier in the Antarctic Ocean during the 61st Japanese Antarctic research expedition. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo