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Rendering of drilling operations during the ANDRILL campaign

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Drilling Back in Time

Rendering of drilling operations during the ANDRILL campaign in Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, October – December 2007. The successful drilling campaign recovered more than 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) of sediments using new drilling technology on an ice sheet platform.

Image credit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln