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Photo credit - G. Lamorey
Setting up the big drill with
a 13-inch diameter core
barrel at Siple Dome,
West Antarctica.
These teams will spend weeks to months in remote areas setting up, testing, and running drills to acquire the cores. Ice as deep as 3,054 meters and as old as 250,000 years has been recovered in the course of these drilling programs.
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