Tag: Thwaites Glacier

  • A robot finds trouble under a glacier

    A robot finds trouble under a glacier

    Scientists have created a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the ‘grounding line’ where the Thwaites Glacier first juts over the sea to monitor its melting. The robot was created by scientists Britney Schmidt of Cornell University and Peter Davis of British Antarctic Survey. The melting is dominated by what is happening underneath, where warmer…