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Meet Yeti, the South Pole's Crevasse-Detecting Robot
Yeti with GPR antenna in tow at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Credit: James Lever, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Continental glaciers are interesting for all kinds of reasons. Ask the National Science Foundation, and it will likely tell you that drilling into the Greenland ice sheet can tell us a great deal about the Earth's climate 100,000 or more years ago. Or perhaps it will point to the Antarctic ice sheet, an excellent medium for the detection of high-energy neutrinos.
From ArsTechnica
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