This Is What Antarctica Would Look Like Without All Its Ice

Image: Figure 7 – Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica. Bedmap3 grids of (a) bed topography and (b) surface elevation, in metres above sea level (g104c geoid), and (c) ice thickness in metres. (ISBN 978-0-85665-236-3, ISBN 978-0-85665-235 -6) Image credit: Peter Fretwell et al. CC BY 4.0 [moved (b) and (c) to the right of (a)]. Article by Tibi Puiu. ZME Science – July 29, 2026. Research article: Scientific Data.

Few frontiers in the world can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Buried under kilometres of ice is a fascinating realm of canyons, waterways, and lakes. These features have now been revealed in the most detailed picture yet of the land beneath the ice. […]

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