These South Pole Seismometers Will Detect Vibrations 1.5 Miles Under the Ice

From left to right: Amarjeet Kumar, Andrew Goh, Hanxiao Wu, Robert Anthony, Jason Chan, John Savoie, and Ken Miller await a plane to travel to the South Pole from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Anthony and Chan were part of the team that deployed two specially engineered seismometers in the ice sheet. Credit: USGS/Christopher Ng, Public Domain