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I've never drilled a hole with 10m diameter before, but I imagine they've been more careful about taking and studying cores than you were.

• Zamiel_Snawley 3y ago
  Surely you mean 10cm?
  • klyrs 3y ago
    My word. I and at least one other poster here were misled by the picture at the top of the article. But, for whatever it's worth, a trip to Wikipedia tells me that they took 2 years off, due to covid.
    • joshvm 3y ago
      It's more realistic to say that covid caused logistics issue two summers in a row. The first summer was presumably 2020 when almost every country locked down. In 2021 things weren't much better and the various polar programs were dealing with both caution and a backlog of issues from the previous year. The actual downtime may have been significantly less than 24 months but still could have killed progress for 36. There's a pretty small window that you can deploy for these sorts of operations.