Everything It Takes to Explore Beneath Polar Ice Caps

The advanced age of Arctic and Antarctic exploration is here, and it's still a risky mission. This team designs custom gliding robots to collect vital data from the depths beneath diminishing ice. W\hat Are We Doing to Prepare for the Next Big Oil Spill? - https://youtu.be/JDYybwXAOlc Read More From Pole to Pole, Underwater Robots Help Predict How and When Ice Shelves Collapse https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/beneath-ice-antarctica “'Ice shelves are melting,' Forrest said. 'We know this. But we don’t know how fast they’re melting. To actually make on-site measurements is the next step. We’re trying to get a baseline understanding of what changes are happening in the Antarctic. As a global community, we don’t really understand what we’re losing.'" MIT engineers program marine robots to take calculated risks https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190130133021.htm "Ayton says the new algorithm can compute tradeoffs of risk versus reward in real time, as AUVs decide where to explore next. He and his colleagues... are implementing this algorithm and others on AUVs, with the vision of deploying fleets of bold, intelligent robotic explorers for a number of missions, including looking for offshore oil deposits, investigating the impact of climate change on coral reefs, and exploring extreme environments analogous to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter that the team hopes AUVs will one day traverse." Satellite imagery illuminates ice conditions around 3 Nunavut communities https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/satellite-ice-imagery-project-nunavut-1.4937340 "The satellite images have a lot of value because they capture a very large area, but it takes people on the ground to interpret what the data means locally. 'That's why we've worked together with... people who are active on the ice in Kugluktuk to understand whether what we think we're seeing in this image taken from space really corresponds to reality,' said Hoeberechts. For example, she said areas with very