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  • Boaty McBoatface Is Set to Confront Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

    Boaty McBoatface Is Set to Confront Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

    The world’s cutest submersible is about the visit the world’s most dangerous glacier. An international team of researchers set off from Chile on a 65-day voyage to Antarctica. There, they’ll deploy Boaty McBoatface and a host of other instruments to explore what’s going on underneath Thwaites Glacier, one of the horsemen of the sea-level-rise apocalypse.