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> I imagine getting through 15 miles of ice might be a wee challenging.

Just drop a nuclear probe that can melt through: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3548139.stm

Getting under the surface of the ice might not be too bad, but getting a signal back up would definitely be.

easy, pack 10km of fibre.

oh wait...

Sometimes I feel like the aerospace industry is in a race to make the most phallic objects possible. I wonder how hard it is to get a signal through all the ice.

There's one design that's a very effective perpetrator. Works in biology; works in space.

I imagine that the probe would set up a transmitter on the surface, and drag a cable behind it through the ice-hole, then deploy another relay at the bottom - probe signals underwater relay, relay passes it onto the surface transmitter, transmitter phones home.

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