An 11-foot robot has given scientists new insight into how quickly the Doomsday Glacier is melting and it doesn't look great.
this week, Icefin discovered that the glacier had retreated up the ocean floor and was beginning to thin at the base. This thinning is causing the Doomsday Glacier to melt outward quickly. On top of that, the 11-foot-long robot also discovered that crevasses in the ice are funnel the warm ocean currents in, making it easier for sections of the glacier to melt faster.
without drastic actions. There is good news. The thinning bases were not melting as quickly as models had predicted. These new ways of observing the ways the Doomsday Glacier is melting will hopefully help us understand where the melting is happening., an associate professor of astronomy and Earth and atmospheric sciences, says that understanding where the glacier is melting is just as important as how much it is melting.
The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration says the Thwaites grounding line has retreated nearly 9 miles since the 1990s. As such, the amount of ice flowing out of the 75-mile-wide region has almost doubled. At this rate, if the Doomsday glacier did melt and collapse into the sea, it could
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