The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has compiled a detailed topographical map using a wide range of datasets to reveal what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet.. Bedmap2 builds on a previous ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. ... The database began in 1993, as a CD-ROM of existing topo maps.

Research published recently in Nature Geoscience details the findings of the most accurate topographical map of Antarctica that we have to date. The map has been dubbed BedMachine and holds critical ...

NASA today released a new, updated map of the topography — that is, the surface structure — of Antarctica. The new topographical map of Earth’s southernmost continent is based on an older ...

Amazingly, researchers now know the height of every mountain and all the ice in all of Antarctica within a few feet. “It is the highest-resolution terrain map by far of any continent,” said Howat.

A new map of Antarctica's surface is so detailed, it almost seems as though if you put your hand on it you could trace the bumps in the ice ridges curving up the Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3.It has incorporated data from ships ...

Antarctica Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before. ... The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17).

University of Minnesota researchers have created a map of Antarctica that shows the continent in more detail than its predecessors. On Sept. 4, researchers at the University’s Polar Geospatial Center ...

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.