image: The RSV Aurora Australis at the front of the Totten Glacier - the first ship to reach the calving front of the glacier. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Rintoulat University of Tasmania in Hobart, TAS, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Ocean heat drives rapid basal melt of the Totten Ice Shelf." view more
Credit: Steve Rintoul (CSIRO and ACE CRC)