Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected
At the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, scientists used a hot-water drill hose to create a hole through the thick ice until they reached the perpetually dark water. What they found surprised them.
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2. Scotsman50 commented 6 years ago
Total depth would have been nice to know
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3. thundersnow commented 6 years ago
#1 Did you get a col-os-tomy?
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4. sux2bu commented 6 years ago
#2 The two bore-holes they created were 1100 ft deep but in other areas of the shelf the ice is over 10,000 ft thick.
Ref: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ross-ice-shelf-bore-antarctica-freezing/
Ref: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ross-ice-shelf-bore-antarctica-freezing/
+2 1. Judge-Jake commented 6 years ago