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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3, it ...

The mapping effort, called Bedmap3, includes far more detail than previous maps and includes millions more data points. "In general, it's become clear the Antarctic ice sheet is thicker than we ...

Called Bedmap3, the dataset is an extension of the previous Bedmap2, and includes data from 84 new aero-geophysical surveys from 15 data sources, 52 million more data points, and 1.9 million line ...

Photo: Pritchard et al. Called Bedmap3, the model is the most detailed and accurate map of the Antarctic continent ever completed. An International scientific team led by the British Antarctic ...

combined with sophisticated computer models to complete what is called Bedmap3. This is the third such map created by BAS and a team of international scientists since 2001. Its purpose is to peel ...