Mission to drill into Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier ends in DISASTER: Key instruments become lodged in the ice

A mission to drill into the most unstable and least accessible part of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier has ended in disaster after key instruments became stuck in the ice.


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