Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

We now know far more about areas around the South Pole, East Antarctica, Transantarctic Mountains and West Antarctic coast. Many grounding lines, where the ice at the continents edge meets the sea, ...

Google Maps recently added a new round of panoramic Street View images from Antarctica including such points of interest as explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut from the Nimrod expedition and the ...

You can read more about the World Wonders Project and Google’s ever-improving view of the South Pole here.. See also: Google’s Street View images of the Amazon. Really incredible stuff. https ...

As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock bed. The project began in 2001, but the researchers involved say the new map represents a dramatic ...

Antarctica's South Pole Telescope Observatory is a 10 meter wide microwave and radio telescope. It was established in the South Pole because the thin atmosphere provides clearer pictures. Google Maps ...

Antarctica is a desert - but it's not hot, it's really, really cold. It's called a desert because it hardly ever rains . The South Pole is near the middle of Antarctica.