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New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. In 2012, a 6.5-mile crack formed in about 5 and a half minutes, show
New research documents the fastest-known large-scale breakage along an Antarctic ice shelf. In 2012, a 6.5-mile crack formed in about 5 and a half minutes, show
2,000 satellites and enough submarine cables to circle the Earth 30 times make up the essential worldwide communications network
Other than delivering films, emails, and tweets, fiber-optic cables that run through the earth, along the seafloor, and into the houses have many other possibilities.
On the scales ice sheets this compressibility means that the ice is denser than it would be otherwise and its surface tens of feet lower, a University of Washington expert calculated