Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography of Antarctica can be inverted from satellite observations of the ice surface ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive map yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica's colossal ice sheet, ...

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Scientists have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland ...

(CN) – Scientists have revealed the most detailed map of the land beneath the massive ice sheets of Antarctica – a map that offers significant insight into how the continent will respond to climate ...

A gravity gradient model of the central Indian Ocean shows the junction of the African tectonic plate (left), the Indo-Australian plate (right) and the Antarctic plate (bottom). Credit: Scripps ...

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 ...

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 ...

A previously undiscovered meeting of gigantic tectonic plates has been found beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf – the Ross Ice Shelf – and it is helping to slow down melting patterns. The massive ...

Geologists had been wondering where to stick a sizable piece of Gondwanaland, but this past year they found where it belongs. Gondwanaland is the southern supercontinent that started breaking up some ...