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A Windracers drone has been assisting scientists from the British Antarctic Survey to collect data on previously unchartered ...
Buried under miles of ice, Antarctica's mysterious mountain ranges are coming into sharper focus thanks to a new map. Surface Ice Created by the British Antarctic Survey, Bedmap2 drew upon ...
Sharper satellite images helped form the backbone of Bedmap3, which updates maps of icy Antarctica — particularly among the high mountains and isolated interior of the eastern part of the ...
Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, rocky terrain, and gold-spewing volcanoes. This hidden world has now ...
Removing the 27 million cubic km of ice that covers Antarctica, the hidden locations of the tallest mountains are revealed. Credit: Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y × close ...
The map, called Bedmap3, gives a clear view of the towering mountains and deep canyons hidden by the ice sheets. It was compiled using more than 60 years of data from planes, satellites, ships and ...
Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed, revealing ...
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 ...
Significantly, the map revealed icy ridges that help to naturally stabilize ice flow across and around the Transantarctic Mountains, some of the oldest and most expansive mountains in Antarctica.
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