To Study Antarctic Ice Rifts, You Have to Throw a Few ‘Bombs’

To Study Antarctic Ice Rifts, You Have to Throw a Few ‘Bombs’: The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through the door of a helicopter. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in the Amundsen Sea The scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon didn’t manage to squeeze instruments through a half-mile-deep hole in the Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica’s