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What's under all that ice in Antarctica? New map has answers. Doyle Rice. ... The mapping effort, called Bedmap3, includes far more detail than previous maps and includes millions more data points.
Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica without ice, revealing its hidden mountains, canyons, and geological features. The new Bedmap3 dataset helps researchers understand ice ...
Top mapmakers are busily updating their charts after a massive iceberg sheared off Antarctica, fundamentally changing the landscape of the peninsula — likely forever. The 1 trillion ton iceberg ...
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.
About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...
Sharper satellite images helped form the backbone of Bedmap3, which updates maps of icy Antarctica — particularly among the high mountains and isolated interior of the eastern part of the continent.
THE otherworldly continent of Antarctica seems all the more fantastical when seen from a new perspective, as shown in these maps laying out its different features in detail. The maps were devised ...
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 […] ...
A 2015 atlas image, amended to show the latest Larsen C break, shows the ice shelf with the iceberg area highlighted. Our Antarctica Maps Show the Larsen Ice Shelf's Stunning Decades-Long Decline ...
Exploring the world is now just a click away, thanks to the super tool, Google Maps that people now rely upon globally. The easy and simplified virtual access to even some of the most remote parts ...