Brain Post: NASA Video of What Antarctica Would Look Like Without Ice

“Our understanding of what lies beneath the world’s biggest ice sheet has taken another leap forward. In this video we strip away Antarctic ice to reveal a new, and much more detailed map of the bedrock below. This map, called Bedmap2, was compiled by the British Antarctic Survey and incorporates millions of new measurements, including substantial data sets from NASA’s ICESat satellite and an airborne mission called Operation IceBridge.” – NASA

There is no where on Earth that we know less about than Antarctica.  The ice of Antarctica can be over 2.5 miles thick in spots.  It was simply impossible to know what lay beneath that ice… until now.

Learn a ton more about Operation IceBridge:  NASA’s Operation IceBridge