Geothermal Probe (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Geothermal Probe

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UCSC researchers lowered a geothermal probe through a borehole in the West Antarctic ice sheet to measure temperatures in the sediments beneath half a mile of ice.

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WISSARD/UCSC

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