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Artificially thickening 100 meter ice pad
For the Lake El'gygytgyn project's drilling operations, an ice pad 100 meters in diameter was artificially thickened to 2.3 meters at the drill site to carry the 100-ton drilling platform.
[The Lake E project was funded by the U.S. Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences and Office of Polar Programs (grant EAR 0602471).]
Learn more in the NSF News Release Remote Siberian lake holds clues to Arctic--and Antarctic--climate change. (Date image taken: 2009; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 28, 2017)
Credit: Anders Noren, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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