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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland’s ice sheet – Ars Technica
Meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow Greenland’s melting from beneath the ice sheet.
Enlarge/ Sensors, support electronics, and a transmitter are all encased in a pressure-proof shell.
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Through the GRACE satellite program, researchers have shown that Greenlands ice sheet has been losing about 280 billion tons of ice each yearthe equivalent of close to 1.5 million Olympic swimming pools. For glaciers like those in Greenland and Antarctica, most of this meltwater ends up in the oceanwith already noticeable consequences for rising sea levels.
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