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

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

This is due to the Mercator Projection ... An even more extreme example would be Antarctica. Despite appearing enormous on a map due to its placement near the Poles, it is actually half the ...

Antarctica is a special case ... to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of ...

Bedmap3 uncovers fresh details of Antarctica’s hidden landscape, from its ice-covered peaks to its deep valleys. Data by Pritchard, H., et al. (BAS) A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to ...

So, Antarctica, Greenland and Russia, look far larger in the Mercator projection. Many of the maps we use today are still based on that projection. However, USA Today noted that other projections ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection ... the expense of places further north and south such as Antarctica, Greenland, Russia, which look far larger in ...