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Published online 20 March 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.174

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Trapped under ice

Nature talks to the team behind a risky submarine mission to map the underside of an Antarctic glacier.

Daniel Cressey

When the Autosub 3 robot submarine began its pioneering 110-kilometre round trip under the Antarctic ice, there was no guarantee that it would ever come back.

Its sister craft, Autosub 2, had been lost on a similar mission in 2005.

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  • Ouestion!!!Why is the Antarctic glacier melting??? Answer!!! Volcano's...

    • 22 Mar, 2009
    • Posted by: Carl Johnson

  • Have you been to the seabed there and found a volcano that the submarine missions didn't notice? Where is this volcano?

    • 24 Mar, 2009
    • Posted by: Neil Bennun