Snow Pits
January 5th 2006 Our team excavated and dug snow pits near the big drill site to provide data about the upper layers and density to be used with our radar, by glaciologists interested in WAIS and by the ice core team coming to WAIS next year. Here are some photos of the tools and our team doing the measurements in the snow pit. There are no photos of them actually DIGGING the pits though.
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