A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica.
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Robot survives months in never-seen Antarctic cavity, finds heat beneath glaciers
A lone robotic float has just achieved something no human, ship, or sensor array has ever managed. For two-and-a-half years, an Argo float equipped with temperature and salinity sensors drifted ...
An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...
A rogue Argo oceanographic float drifted away to accidentally collect data on one of Antarctica’s most inaccessible regions.
The robot spent a total of eight months beneath the frozen surface, briefly surfacing every five days to transmit its readings. What researchers discovered when they analyzed the data, however, was ...
If you're one of the millions that followed the little Mars rover that could, Opportunity, for 15 years and whose heart was broken when it sent its final message before shutting down (translated to ...
An underwater robot called Lassie has discovered "remarkable" icefish nests while searching for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, The Endurance. Scientists uncovered a "new and unusual" phenomenon - ...
Beneath the ice of Antarctica, scientists discover a “fish city” with protected nests more than 950 feet deep.
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