Scientists to repeat 19th-century ship's crossing of polar ice cap

Ambitious Mosaic expedition will study weather patterns and life in melt ponds from vessel drifting with the ice currentIn 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarked on a mission of extraordinary boldness and ingenuity. He planned to become the first person to reach the north pole by allowing his wooden vessel, the Fram, to be engulfed by sea ice and pulled across the polar cap on an ice current.Ultimately, Nansen ended up abandoning the Fram and skiing hundreds of miles to a British b