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Beneath Antarctica’s colossal ice sheets, there’s a world that few people have ever seen until now. Well, technically ...
The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...
Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...
The new map comes as Antarctica is losing ice mass at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year.
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 ...
Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.
A 'vulnerable Antarctica' Scientists said the map revealed that the ice sheet is at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the continent.
Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' worth of technology to take a peek.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away its ubiquitous cover of ice and snow. Derived from 60 years of data, it ...
A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice removed.