The Ocean is melting the Pine Island Glacier
A mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of the Pine Island Glacier. A brief outline of mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of the Pine Island Glacier.
For five years an international team of experts, led by NASA emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, planned and orchestrated a mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of the Pine Island Glacier. Finally they persevered over harsh weather conditions, a short Antarctic field season, and the remote location of the glacier, and installed a variety of instruments to measure the properties of the ocean water below the ice shelf.
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- Pine Island Glacier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island_Glacier
- Worldview
Tags: 2013, Antarctica, Glaciers, Ice Sheet, Ice Shelf, NASA, Pine Island Glacier, Video, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Categories: Antarctica, Glacier, Ice Sheets, Video
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Chris covers the climate since 2011, and when not posting articles to the site he usually works on our next video production.
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