If the Thwaites Glacier melts, sea levels could rise by 10 feet.
Giant Yellow Camera Robot Finds Deep Cracks Under the ‘Doomsday Glacier’A large yellow modular robot with cameras attached has been studying the Thwaites Glacier, a vast Antarctic ice shelf nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier.
The Icefin oceanographer robot was sent beneath the Thwaites Glacier and found deep cracks on its underside which are accelerating its deterioration. The Thwaites Doomsday Glacier gets its name because if it melts, its contribution to a global sea level rise could prove catastrophic to human communities. Thwaites has the potential to raise ocean levels by two feet,Not only that, but the glacier is a natural dam to other ice in West Antarctica and if that ice melted into the ocean, water levels could rise 10 feet.
Its HD cameras have laser ranging and scaling capabilities, as well as salinity and temperature gauges, sonar systems, and a sidescan for seafloor imaging.The amazing piece of kit allowed a team of U.S. and British scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration to observe areas previously impossible to access.
“It was able to swim up to these really dynamic places and take data from the sea floor all the way to the ice,” Britney Schmidt, an associate professor at Cornell University and a lead author on one of the papers,
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