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Probably a lot of residual heat (from the landing, and from inside the ship) helped melt its way into the ice.
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That would be my guess. A ship coming in that hot through the atmosphere is going to have a ton of residual heat on it. Impact+Melting= Initailly buried pretty deep. Also we don't know anything about the planet. It could have major warming and cooling cycles which causes large amounts of ice and snow to melt then refreeze. Without more information we really can't come up with an accurate reason for it to be buried that deep.
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