Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping to ascertain the shape of the bedrock sequestered below ...

Credit: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) The new research also reveals, in unprecedented detail, the shape of the ice sheet and ice shelves that float around the fringes of the continent.

The Antarctic ice sheet ... "The latest satellite data have also more accurately recorded the height and shape of the ice sheet and the thickness of the floating ice shelves that push out over ...

Subtracting this topography from the shape and elevation of the ice above provides some fascinating statistics on the polar south. Total volume of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 27.17 ...