Not exact matches
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.
They are
called polynyas, formations that derive their name from the Russian word for «
hole in the
ice,» and are typically an expanse of open seawater along the coast that is enclosed by floating sea
ice and the continental shelf.
★ Mika Rottenberg: «Bowls Balls Souls
Holes» (through June 14) The centerpiece of this show, a delirious, 28 - minute video
called «Bowls Balls Souls
Holes,» takes viewers on a mind - blowing trip through time and space, from a Harlem bingo parlor to melting
ice in a polar sea and from a seedy urban hotel to the subterranean depths of a parallel universe.
The heat kept the huge
hole in the
ice pack
called a polynya open, and a massive oceanic convection cell formed
in the Antarctic winter.