The Shackleton Ice Shelf included the Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf before it collapsed. ( Supplied: Sarah Thompson ) "However, when ice shelves thin, retreat, fracture, and crevasse, their buttressing ...

The Ross Ice Shelf is a floating lip of ice that extends out over the ocean from inland glaciers. Scientists are interested in interactions between ice shelves and ice streams in part because they are ...

The potential acceleration and eventual disintegration of the Ross Ice Shelf, leading to its movement into the sea, would have far-reaching consequences for ice coverage throughout the region.

The robot revealed a new circulation pattern, a jet funneling water sideways through the crevasse it was studying, in addition to rising and sinking currents, and diverse ice formations shaped by ...

The Icefin robot, operated remotely, made an ascent and descent within a crevasse located at the base of the Ross Ice Shelf. This operation marked a significant milestone by providing the first 3D ...

On the team’s last dive, a senior research engineer, Matthew Meister, drove Icefin into one of five crevasses found near the borehole. Equipped with thrusters, cameras, sonar, and sensors for ...

Cornell University Scientists exploring underneath the Antarctic Ice Shelf as part of a NASA program to potentially explore the oceans of Jupiter’s Moon Europa say they have made an unexpected ...

The remotely operated Icefin robot's climb up and down a crevasse in the base of the Ross Ice Shelf produced the first 3D measurements of ocean conditions near where it meets the coastline, a critical ...

However, the Icefin robot, navigating a crevasse within the foundation of the Ross Ice Shelf, achieved the world's first 3D analysis of oceanic conditions within the grounding zone, effectively ...

Crevasses were long thought of as static, icy voids. However, the Icefin robot, which traversed up and down a crevasse in the base of the Ross Ice Shelf, created the world’s first 3D measurement ...

A team led by Peter Washam, an oceanographer and climate scientist at Cornell University, used Icefin to observe a crevasse near the grounding line of the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.

This groundbreaking research was made possible by the innovative Icefin robot, which managed to navigate up and down a crevasse at the base of the Ross Ice Shelf. The expedition produced the very ...