Sentences with phrase «drilling holes in the ice»

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

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The researchers lower the fiber - optic and sensor cables down a hole drilled through the ice to the ocean in 2011.

A team of ice drillers (a rare profession, but crucial in Antarctica) spent three days boring a hole through the ice last week.

The drill hose dangled 2,480 feet down a 20 - inch - wide hole in the ice.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshorIn Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshorin their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshorin the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

I remember drilling in the Arctic and losing a drill bit in one of the holes we had made, just because it froze into the ice before we could get it out.»

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

It would be interesting to drill holes in the floating ice shelf and put current meters just below the ice to see what is the magnitude, if any, of a seaward current.

My most memorable travel experience took place in Lapland, Finland almost 4 years ago, when I watched a man drilling a big ice hole, took a dip in it and put on his clothes again as if nothing extraordinary had just happened.

His team combined different sets of measurements which used stakes and holes drilled into the ice to record the change in mass of more than 300 glaciers since the 1940s.

«The Deepest and Most Rewarding Hole Ever Drilled»: Ice Cores and the Cold War in Greenland.»

Perhaps the best move would be to drill more such deep (and expensive) holes in the Antarctic ice.

For one group of American scientists on the ice in Greenland, the «moment of truth» struck on a single day in midsummer 1992 as they analyzed a cylinder of ice, recently emerged from the drill hole, that came from the last years of the Younger Dryas.

To work out how much meltwater might be stored within the pores of the firn, the scientists set up camp in 2012, 2013 and 2015 on the ice cap to use radar and to drill a series of holes 20 metres deep into the porous firn layer − also choosing sites where samples had been taken 20 years ago.