Underwater Robot Used To Find Thickness Of Antarctic Sea Ice
Although there have been previous efforts with the help of satellite, but the measurement faced slanting surface problem due to surface snow, and some ice floes are too big to reach by ship and even ice breakers fail to make direct measurement by drilling into them! On Monday, Scientists revealed the first detailed, high-resolution 3D maps of Antarctic Sea Ice, based on measurements of the underside of ice floes by a remote-controlled submarine’s upward looking-sonar....