Decades of Assumptions Proven Wrong as Scientists Finally Uncover the 'Hidden Landscape' That Lies Beneath Antarctica's Ice ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, valleys and plains ...

"[This study gives] us a better picture of what's going to happen in the future." Researchers reveal hidden landscape beneath miles of ice: 'Now you've got a properly zoomed-in digital image' first ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow predictions.

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried beneath kilometers of ice. That unseen landscape is now coming into focus.

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, and it’s nearly completely covered by ice. Due to global warming, ice is melting rapidly in parts of the continent, according to a 2023 study.

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.