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.

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