| Summary: | The design and first deployment is described for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory–California Institute of Technology ice borehole camera system for acquisition of down-looking and side-looking images in a borehole made by a hot-water drill. The objective of the system is to acquire images in support of studies of the basal dynamics and thermodynamics of West Antarctic ice streams. A few sample images, obtained during the 2000/01 Antarctic field season, are shown from the basal layers of Ice Stream C. © 2002 International Glaciological Society. MS received 4 July 2001 and accepted in revised form 19 September 2002. We have been fortunate to collaborate with B. Kamb of Caltech, the principal investigator of the West Antarctic project that included our deployment. We appreciate funding from NASA Earth Sciences for the development and fabrication of the ice borehole camera, and from the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs for field support for the Antarctic work. At JPL we note the contributions of R. Bolsey, K. Boykins, L. French, R. Ivlev, K. Mannat, F. Nicase, R. Scrivner, S. Cozy and K. Zhu; in Antarctica the assistance of the Caltech field party was essential to our success. The reviewers provided a much appreciated set of suggestions on this paper, and we thank them for their efforts. Published - borehole_camera_system_for_imaging_the_deep_interior_of_ice_sheets.pdf
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