I also remember my 1956 Oxford School Atlas' Antarctic map, ... due to its location near Earth's magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

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.

You may know that the South Pole sits on solid land and the North Pole is but a spot in the Arctic Ocean, but it’s probably difficult to imagine either pole as anything but a giant sheet of ice ...

Map of Antarctica. Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere. ... More than 100 years ago explorers tried to reach the South Pole which is near the middle of Antarctica. Back to top.

We now know far more about areas around the South Pole, East Antarctica, Transantarctic Mountains and West Antarctic coast. Many grounding lines, where the ice at the continents edge meets the sea, ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Despite its slow reluctance to allow women in Antarctica, the U.S. Navy even sponsored a media event that included Jones’ team. On Nov. 12, 1969, the four women — plus Pam Young, a biologist doing ...

Antarctica is a desert - but it's not hot, it's really, really cold. It's called a desert because it hardly ever rains . The South Pole is near the middle of Antarctica.

I also remember my 1956 Oxford School Atlas’ Antarctic map, ... due to its location near Earth’s magnetic South Pole, Antarctica provides an ideal platform for studying the ionosphere and ...