THWAITES & MELT
MELT is a collaboration between five universities and the British Antarctic Survey that aims to use autonomous sensors, vehicles (including Icefin), radar, and moorings to monitor the Thwaites ice shelf and grounding line.
Life Under The Ice
The Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab at Cornell University continues the search for life beyond our Pale Blue Dot. The universe is teeming with worlds we want to understand and one day explore. Here at Cornell University, our growing program aims to understand how icy ocean worlds form, evolve, and ultimately could give rise to life.
PROJECTS
From ice-diving robots to planetary habitability, learn about our current projects and follow our progress
PEOPLE
Meet the engineers, graduate students, field team, postdocs, and undergraduates on our team
ABOUT
We are building a program to understand how icy ocean worlds form, evolve, and may give rise to life
Featured PROJECTS
RISE UP
RISE UP is working to explore Antarctica and develop technology to explore other icy ocean worlds in our solar system. The Ross Ice Shelf and Europa Underwater Probe project explores from the McMurdo sea ice to Kamb Ice Stream.
PINGO STARR
Pingo STARR will advance human and lander scale geophysical techniques specifically tailored to detect, characterize, and investigate the cryohydrology and genesis of possible pingo-like features on Earth, Mars, and Ceres.