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ins.: 2026-01-12 01:00, 20 days ago
By: Scientists
Category: SWAIS2C

SWAIS2C: 2026-01-12

Final borehole science takes place
Geophysics team member Ari David and AIDD driller Jakeb Morton deploy the fibre optic cable. Credit: Ana Tovey / SWAIS2C

The final experiment to be deployed down the borehole was a fibre optic cable. The fibre is used to measure the temperature structure of the ice sheet. It also acts a distributed acoustic sensor, the equivalent of an array of seismometers deployed throughout the ice sheet.