A hypnotizing journey through the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ reveals rapid melting 🌀🤖🧊 Repost from @sciencealert ⬇️ For the first times scientists directly observe what’s happening under Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier by sending a robot down a borehole. Footage shows rapid melting along the glacier’s base cracks and crevasses. Since the 1990s, the “grounding line,” where the glacier meets the seafloor, has retreated 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) and ice flow out of the region has nearly doubled. Read more