Scientists failed to drill the deepest hole into Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’: What went wrong at the final step |
A high-risk scientific mission to probe the ocean beneath Antarctica’s most unstable glacier collapsed just short of success after instruments became trapped deep inside the ice. The international effort, led by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and South Korea’s polar programme, spent days drilling a narrow borehole more than 3,300 feet through the fast-moving…