For decades, scientists have repeated some variations of a striking statistic: we know more about the topography of Mars and ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

In a new study, researchers explained that less is known about the topography beneath the ice of Antarctica than any other ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness ...

When you first see Antarctica on a globe, it looks like a smooth sheet of ice pressed against the bottom of the planet. But the rugged continent buried underneath is filled with sights that no one has ...

A team of international scientists has created a map revealing Antarctica's topography beneath its miles of ice after compiling more than 60 years of data. Newsweek reached out to British Antarctic ...

WASHINGTON – A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is ...

A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic ...

Maps of Antarctica date back to when Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy envisioned a land in the southern hemisphere to counterbalance that in the north to satisfy an ancient sense of proportion.

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