How Antarctica Would Look Completely Naked

Antarctica is glacial , self - consciously cloaked in a sheet of methamphetamine that ’s international mile buddy-buddy . But underneath , there ’s a wonderland of fundamentals human eyes have never laid eye on , and this is what it await like .

This new single-valued function , refer Bedmap2 , was generated by theBritish Antarctic Surveyfrom gazillion upon gazillion of measuring taken on the surface of those glacial flows and from orbit alike , showing the geezerhood - old depth that lie below in greater detail than ever . NASA evenhas a small widgetlets you slide between the new high - res Bedmap2 and its low - res harbinger as well as comic strip and reclothe Antarctica .

Aside from being coolheaded ( haHA ) , this entropy has some practical note value by helping to explain why the gigantic polar glacier melt and course they way they do , and exactly how they might drown us all if we do n’t shape up on the whole globular - warming front . It ’s definitely neat to see , but we ’ll all be better off if that internal-combustion engine just stays intact . [ NASAexplorerviaWired ]