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Apr 16, 2021 10:36 AM EDT
There could be melting of the glacier at the key points holding it to the land. A robotic submarine has gotten back from the dark underbelly of one of the largest Antarctica glaciers with chilling information- it could be melting rapidly than we formerly thought.
(Photo : Brent Olson)
The Unmanned Submarine
Thwaites Glacier, an enormous ice shelf in West Antarctica, has been on the radars of climate scientists for about two decades now. But they don t have the knowledge on how quick the glacier was melting, and how near it was to collapse entirely, until scientists sent an unmanned submarine (an underwater vehicle) beneath the ice shelf.