Helicopter near Thwaites (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Helicopter near Thwaites

Caption

Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, which supports the infamous Thwaites glacier – a rapidly melting glacier that is critical to the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In the sky is the helicopter used by Peter Neff and colleagues on their recent expedition to collect additional ice cores to further constrain the climate in this region over the last century.

Credit

Peter Neff

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