Finally the robot reached the group of scientists waiting for it at the edge of the flue. They quickly checked it's status and programmed it to get back to the Equinox.
The robot led the way, but there was another earthquake. It didn't stop, but the people actually halted in the small tunnel waiting for the end of the shaking. Unfortunately the tunnel's ice walls were not able to sustain the quake, and it started to collapse. Calista started to run towards the way out and this was her last mistake she made in her life. She fell on a smaller piece of ice, and a huge ice dripstone crushed her body. Then the whole cave started to collapse.
There was very little chance that they could survive.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.