New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 12:00
in Earth & Climate
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas.