The Thwaites Glacier area is the largest catchment area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Around 5,000 gigatonnes of ice have melted here in the past 40 years, which is equivalent to more than a third of the total melted ice in Antarctica. Underneath the area is...
The diving robot Ran navigates under the ice front of the Thwaites Glacier. (Photo: Filip Stedt) For the first time, researchers have collected data from underneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica using an underwater robot. Findings reveal that the...