A more expensive reconnaissance instrument, which will do its first
drilling tests this season at Dome C, should be ready to take a deeper look next year.
But also this
season, a US team led by climatologist Jeffrey Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, will
test the $ 10.5 - million Rapid Access Ice
Drill (also abbreviated RAID) at Minna Bluff, near the US McMurdo Station on Ross Island.