| Video courtesy of Dr. Kendrick Taylor (Desert Research Institute/Nevada System of Higher Education) |
| General Summary/Description: | The Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) Drill is a electromechanical drill system capable of cutting and retrieving cores of ice to depths of 4,000 meters. The cores produced by the drill are approximately 12.2 cm (4.8 inches) in diameter and approximately 2.5-meters long. Because of the great depths, the drill is designed to operate in a drilling fluid, which provides the hydrostatic compensation necessary to prevent closure of the borehole due to the "glaciostatic" pressure of the surrounding ice. Read more ... |
| Number in Inventory: | 1 |
| Type: | Coring |
| Borehole Diameter: | 170 mm |
| Core Diameter (if coring): | 122 mm |
| Maximum Depth Possible: | 4000 m |
| IDDO Driller Required?: | yes |
| Comments: | Drill kerf: 24 mm |
| Subsystem | # in Inventory | Description | Weight | Cube |
| Winch | 1 | 18,460 lbs | 784 | Levelwind | 1 | 5,520 lbs | 369 | Tower | 1 | 3,580 lbs | 219 | Cable, 3800 m (spooled) | 1 | 15.2 mm diameter | 7,817 lbs | 107 | Sonde | 157 mm diameter | 1,100 lbs | MECC | 1 | Shop facility | 19,140 lbs | 1280 | Screens & screen cleaning station | 1,440 lbs | 78 | DISC control room | 1 | 3,500 lbs | 840 |
