Naturally, the land beneath that massive sheet of ice is of great interest ... Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ...

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

Now, a new map released this week gives ... two ice sheets worldwide today, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. They contain more than 99% of the land ice on Earth. The huge size of the ...

Antarctica is the toughest of all the continents to map because almost its entire land surface and even much of the seabed around it is sealed under a perpetual cap of ice that contains 70% of the ...

Researchers have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica's bedrock ... the place with the thickest ice in Antarctica is an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, a district in the east of the continent.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been ... Earlier surveys put this in the Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land. However, data reinterpretation reveals ...

Called Bedmap3, the model is the most detailed and accurate map of the Antarctic continent ever completed ... But it's also a grave reminder of how that buried land is quickly rising to the ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...