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See what happens beneath the ice of Antarctica, people wanted for a long time. And so the engineers at the Georgia Technical Institute were a special submarine probe is designed – a unique miniature a device that was lowered under the ice of Antarctica to the very bottom of the sea Ross.
Icefin is assembled at McMurdo’s US base, located in Antarctica. The probe was lowered into a well with a diameter of thirty centimeters under the ice shelf, its thickness was more than twenty meters. After that, the mini-device overcame another 500 meters of water to reach the bottom of the sea.
In order for the probe to function normally, it had all the necessary equipment is installed, as well as the SLAM system instead GPS navigation, which under the ice does not work. According to project manager Britney Schmidt, this probe is also half a small vessel, so it can sink one and a half kilometers and move within a radius of three kilometers, thus giving an expanded picture of biological and hydrological processes, which occur beneath the ice of Antarctica.
By the way, according to the scientist, this unique device can use on other planets, say, on the satellite of Jupiter and etc.
The proposed video demonstrates an amazing underwater world. Earth’s coldest continent. Please note that in the waters Ross seas live sponges, stars, anemones and many other marine representatives of this cold water world. In addition, the probe studied and the influence of ocean waters and their impact on the ice sheet Antarctica.
Antarctica Life
