A petreldoes notdig a burrowwhere it does because of the averagetemperatureorwindspeedon the islandbut because of how warmor windy it is at that particularspot.
From a research station operated by the National Science Foundation called Summit Camp, a spot where the ice sheet is about 2 miles thick, GROVER will crawl at an averagespeed of 1.2 mph (2 kilometers per hour).