Scientists have released the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created. Credit: Polar Geospatial Center/University of Minnesota/Maxar/ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency A team of ...

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image: With four more years of satellite imagery data, researchers in the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and their partners have now released the most detailed polar region ...

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(a) Map of Antarctica and (b) the East Antarctic study region showing interior stations that provided the main climate data (Dome Fuji, Relay, and Mizuho Stations). Coastal stations (Syowa and Mawson ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and food webs—has been in the news a lot lately. All of these threats were ...

A team of researchers has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever ...