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Mapping Antarctica’s Bedrock

Published on 4 June 20134 November 2017 by Jonathan Crowe
Bedmap2 topography map of Antarctica (NASA)
NASA-GFSC

NASA has released an updated map of the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet; the map, called Bedmap2, adds considerable detail—a tighter grid and millions of data points—to its decade-old predecessor. The image above exaggerates vertical scale by a factor of 17 to increase visibility. See also this short video.

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