US EditionDeep in an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses in Its Final Stage
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A bold attempt to study Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, which is melting rapidly, collapsed over the weekend after scientists’ instruments were buried within half a mile thick ice. A team of British and South Korean researchers were trying to install instruments under the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the first of their kind, on the warm ocean waters that are melting the ice at a rate of hundreds of feet per year.
A bold attempt to study Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, which is melting rapidly, collapsed over the weekend after scientists’ instruments were buried within half a mile thick ice. A team of British and South Korean researchers were trying to install instruments under the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the first of their kind, on the warm ocean waters that are melting the ice at a rate of hundreds of feet per year.
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