Heavy Machinery
How do you get a hot water drill onto an ice sheet? The Subglacial Access and Fast Ice Research Experiment (SAFIRE) uses a hot water drill to directly access and observe the physical and geothermal properties where the ice meets rock or sediment at the glacier-bed interface. Here, SAFIRE principal investigator Bryn Hubbard and post-doc Sam Doyle help fly in the drill spool at the start of the Summer 2014 field campaign on Store Glacier, Western Greenland.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Tun Jan Young (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
2.2 MB
Aspect
77:51
Width
4928 px
Height
3264 px
Brand
Nikon
Model
D7000
Exposure
150 mm f/5.6 1/1250 s ISO 100
Coordinates
70.4992, -49.5593
Tint
Very pale blue
Submitted
22 February 2016
Taken
17 July 2014
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