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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A SuccessorThis is the original Ran, working hard in Antarctica before its untimely demise in 2024.

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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A SuccessorThis is the original Ran, working hard in Antarctica before its untimely demise in 2024.
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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A Successor

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The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of AntarcticaThwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, a large body of ice surrounded by blue water.

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The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of AntarcticaThwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, a large body of ice surrounded by blue water.
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The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of Antarctica

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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"Scientists used hot water to drill a borehole roughly 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica.

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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"Scientists used hot water to drill a borehole roughly 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica.
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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"

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Warm Seawater Is Flowing Under The “Doomsday Glacier” And It’s As Bad As It SoundsThe Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because the shape of the seafloor it rests on means that once a certain boundary is breached it will melt very fast. Tides could mean we reach that sooner.

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Warm Seawater Is Flowing Under The “Doomsday Glacier” And It’s As Bad As It SoundsThe Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because the shape of the seafloor it rests on means that once a certain boundary is breached it will melt very fast. Tides could mean we reach that sooner.
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Warm Seawater Is Flowing Under The “Doomsday Glacier” And It’s As Bad As It Sounds

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Ground Beneath Antarctica's Most Vulnerable Glacier Mapped For First TimeBritish Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft flies over Thwaites Glacier with instrumentation attached to the wing ()

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Ground Beneath Antarctica's Most Vulnerable Glacier Mapped For First TimeBritish Antarctic Survey Twin Otter aircraft flies over Thwaites Glacier with instrumentation attached to the wing ()
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Ground Beneath Antarctica's Most Vulnerable Glacier Mapped For First Time

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Collapse Of Thwaites “Doomsday” Glacier Depends On Small Areas Of Accelerated MeltingThere are large cracks at the top of Thwaites Glaceier, but it is the shape of the ice at the bottom that poses the threat.

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Collapse Of Thwaites “Doomsday” Glacier Depends On Small Areas Of Accelerated MeltingThere are large cracks at the top of Thwaites Glaceier, but it is the shape of the ice at the bottom that poses the threat.
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Collapse Of Thwaites “Doomsday” Glacier Depends On Small Areas Of Accelerated Melting

clock-iconFebruary 15, 2023
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Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier Is "Holding On By Its Fingernails”A NASA satellite image of the sea and the Thwaites glacier, a chunk of ice roughly the size of Florida found on the edge of West Antarctica

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Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier Is "Holding On By Its Fingernails”A NASA satellite image of the sea and the Thwaites glacier, a chunk of ice roughly the size of Florida found on the edge of West Antarctica
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Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier Is "Holding On By Its Fingernails”

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NASA Study Of Antarctic Glacier Makes "Several Disturbing Discoveries”article image

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NASA Study Of Antarctic Glacier Makes "Several Disturbing Discoveries”

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