A 13-foot-tall robot named 'Icefin' swam underneath the 'Doomsday Glacier' and found it's not just melting

A 13-foot-tall robot named 'Icefin' swam underneath the 'Doomsday Glacier' and found it's not just melting

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Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it’s both good and bad news. Using a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the grounding line where…

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