Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

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By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

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Antarctica also exhibits many scars due to local flow anomalies. Several physical processes can be identified: abrupt transitions from deformation to sliding and vice versa, and impressive strike-slip ...

The models simulate the physical processes that determine how ... An understanding of some systematic weather patterns is needed when interpreting a map. Easterly winds over the tropics and subtropics ...

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and ...

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When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A map of Antarctica showing gravity data across the frozen continent. Wilkes Land is situated in the bottom right corner of the map. A patch resembling a U-shape surrounded by dark blue is the ...