Pinbone wizard
by Melissa Hart, Geophysical Institute

Photo courtesy Geophysical Institute

The Geophysical Institute's machine shop designed and produced a drill for the Polar Ice Coring Office, which went through the Greenlandic Ice Sheet to a depth of about one mile, to produce the first continuous ice core sample from that region.

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