Hot-water rescue ice drilling system to recover subglacial lake exploring sonde: General concept

Autonomous sondes are used to study the Antarctic subglacial environment, yet they risk of being frozen in ice due to heating failure. To recover an accidently frozen sonde this paper describes a concept for a hot-water rescue ice drilling system. A special hot-water drill tool was designed to drill...

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Published in:Polar Science
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=17372
http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00017229/