"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said Robin E. Bell, referring to icy moons. Bell is a research professor at Columbia ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve ... the project say the new map gives a clearer picture of where mountains rise, canyons plunge, and—most importantly—where ...

Unseen mountains, valleys ... stem from 20 years of work to map the hidden continent cloaked beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Scientists also realized that subglacial rivers often flow in ...

The updated map of Antarctica clearly shows the landscape beneath its massive ice sheet, including its tallest mountains and deepest canyons. Notably, data revisions show the thickest ice is found in ...