Robot vanishes under Antarctic ice after discovering unknown structures

The autonomous underwater robot Ran from the University of Gothenburg spent nearly a month exploring beneath the Dotson ice shelf in western Antarctica, traveling over 1,000 km. It provided scientists with detailed data about ice surfaces inaccessible directly and discovered previously unknown structures. During another mission two years later, the robot disappeared without a trace.

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