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It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

Data from instruments on two NASA Earth Observing System satellites--Aqua and Terra--have provided the most detailed map yet of Antarctica. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Modis) ...

GREENBELT, Md. – Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Golden, Colo., have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite to create the most detailed, ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might affect sea-level rise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice conceals a rugged landscape. A view over the Wilson Piedmont in Antarctica shows examples of the ice surface and what the ...

One of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system is closer to home than you might expect: the continent of Antarctica. While Antarctica's icy surface is fairly well-studied, its ...

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