The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ... planes flying over Antarctica, as well as local ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ...

Antarctica is the toughest of all the continents to map because almost its entire land surface and even much of the seabed around it is sealed under a perpetual cap of ice that contains 70% of the ...

Chinese scientists are expected to conclude the most complete and precise map of Antarctica during ... data for detection of the change of Antarctica land coverage in a long run, Cheng said.

Researchers have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica's bedrock ... the place with the thickest ice in Antarctica is an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, a district in the east of the continent.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been ... Earlier surveys put this in the Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land. However, data reinterpretation reveals ...

as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the thickest ice in Antarctica. An unnamed canyon on Wilkes Land hosts ice which is a ...

Now, a new model allows us to peel back the frozen white layers and see the land beneath ... explored regions of East Antarctica, including the South Polar area. The map shows the location ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve ... the real record-holder is in an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land, where ice piles up to 4,757 metres. To compile the map the ...

One notable discovery is that Antarctica’s thickest ice was found in an unnamed canyon in Wilkes Land. The ice there is more than 15,000 feet thick. Earlier maps placed the thickest ice in the ...

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...