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Beneath Antarctica’s colossal ice sheets, there’s a world that few people have ever seen until now. Well, technically ...
Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and ...
Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest climate change. Its melting ice could contribute up to 5 meters of sea-level rise . Where the ice disappears, it leaves barren ground behind.
"Up until now, we've had a better map of Mars than we've had of Antarctica," Ian Howat, earth science professor at Ohio State, said in a statement. "Now it is the best-mapped continent on Earth." ...
The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) map has a resolution more than 100 times sharper than previous representations. "At this resolution, you can see almost everything," Ian Howat, ...
The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.
A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed. What's under all that ice in Antarctica? New map has answers.
By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: Antarctica is finally on the map. Google maps, that is. Of course, the southern continent has always been on Google maps and its popular […] ...
An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life The Bedmap3 survey is bringing the polar continent into focus, which could help detect life on icy moons ...
Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before. Latest in Opinion. Remote cave in Guam reveals ancient voyagers carried rice to Pacific islands 3,500 years ...