Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists » seismic http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:40:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Detonation http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/detonation/ http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/detonation/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:13:12 +0000 Lucas Beem http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=2352 WHILLANS ICE STREAM, ANTARCTICA– This video shows the detonation of our excess explosives, used for seismic surveys of the base of the glacier. Our scientific objectives justify the risks of transporting the explosives to our field site. But the risk is not justified to carry them back. As a result, once our scientific objectives have been completed we dispose of any excess through detonation.


A detonation on the ice sheet



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