NASA is looking for its rubber ducks and needs your help.
Three months ago, NASA dropped 90 rubber ducks stamped with an email address and the words ”science experiment” and ”reward” in three languages into melting Greenland glaciers. Streams of melting glacial water create holes or “moulins” underneath the ice. The moulins supposedly cause the glaciers to melt faster as the water streams underneath the ice.
NASA conducted the experiment to evaluate how the glaciers move. It was hoped that the ducks would bob up somewhere in the ocean, giving an indication how the melted ice travels into the ocean currents.
NASA is offering $100 to the first person who discovers one of its rubber ducks.
NASA is also missing a football-sized GPS probe. It has never communicated its position and is presumed trapped underneath the ice, probably with a few dozen rubber ducks.
