Studying Life on the Rocks
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 12:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have developed an apparatus to meet the growing need for measuring ice as it changes in response to external forces, a process ice scientists call "deformational behaviors.'' These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies. Their report on their device -- called a cryogenic deformation apparatus -- appears in Review of Scientific Instruments.