🧊 Scientists Explore the Final Glacial Frontier

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An Underwater Drone Helped Scientists Explore the Final Glacial Frontier

There are few places on Earth more remote and mysterious than the underside of Antarctica’s ice shelves. These floating tongues of ice that extend off the continent’s vast, land-bound glaciers are at the front line of polar melt and sea level rise. But we know relatively little about them — how they’re melting, changing, and moving — beyond the surface level, because it’s hard to get a good look.

Ice shelves are often hundreds of meters thick. Through satellite data and radar measurements of the surface, glaciologists can make inferences and estimates about shifts in sea ice behavior unfolding under climate change. Yet a new perspective can offer a whole lot more information, as demonstrated in a study published July 31 in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to explore beneath Dotson ice shelf, on the western side of Antarctica.

The unmanned submarine traveled more than 600 miles over 27 days, collecting ocean temperature, salinity, and current data while also scanning the bottom of the ice shelf using sonar for the first time. The resulting, detailed measurements allowed the researchers to construct the most detailed maps of the Dotson ever, revealing exactly how the shelf is changing and even new types of ice-shelf formations never seen before.

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The Most Ambitious Batman Show in Years

If you wanted to consume nothing but Batman-related content, you could easily go years without running out of new material. Since the start of the 21st century, there have been over 10 different Batman movies, a handful of TV shows, and more video games that I can count.

So you might assume that Hollywood would eventually run out of ways to reimagine the Dark Knight of Gotham City. Instead, the opposite seems true. The more Batman we get, the more writers, directors, and showrunners seemingly feel the pressure to flex their creative muscles with each reimagining of the 85-year-old superhero.

Sure, not every new take on the character is a good one (see, Batffleck) but Bruce Wayne’s batting average is surprisingly high for an octogenarian, and the very latest version of Batman might be the most creative and enjoyable in years.

Streaming in its entirety now on Amazon Prime Video, Batman: Caped Crusader is a bold adaptation of the character from Bruce Timm, one of the brilliant minds behind arguably the best Batman adaptation ever: The Animated Series. But while you might expect Timm’s follow-up to be a direct sequel, or even a spiritual one, instead he’s delivered a fresh remix of the entire Batman universe. Caped Crusader takes some huge swings and largely connects to deliver the most ambitious tale of the Dark Knight in recent memory.

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