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

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

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 ...

Researchers have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica's bedrock yet. | Credit: Pritchard et al., Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map ...

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 ...