Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

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 ...

Story continues below this ad — The researchers introduced Bedmap3, the most recent dataset with highly detailed representations of the icy continents’ surface elevation, ice thickness, and subglacial ...

Graphics: Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica by Pritchard, H., et al. Image: David Vaughan, BAS ...