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17 ore fa · Antarctica (/ æ n ˈ t ɑːr k t ɪ k ə / ⓘ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole.
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1 giorno fa · Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size. It is divided into East Antarctica (largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and West Antarctica (an archipelago of ice-covered mountainous islands).
3 giorni fa · NASA image. Irvine, Calif., May 20, 2024 — A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many kilometers beneath the grounded ice of West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier.
5 giorni fa · 18 May, 2024 News stories. Comprehensive digital maps of Antarctica are now available to all, following the latest update of the Antarctic Digital Database. The new map viewer brings together all of the Antarctic Digital Database datasets alongside further useful information and displays them together in an interactive website.
2 giorni fa · Ocean tides are burrowing beneath a thick sheet of Antarctic ice—dubbed the “doomsday glacier” for its threat to global sea levels—and melting it from below. The daily intrusions of seawater, detected by satellites, mean the Thwaites Glacier may be disintegrating “much faster” than previously thought, scientists say in a study ...
1 giorno fa · At 80 miles across, Thwaites is the world's widest glacier. It has been nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier" for the catastrophic effects its thawing could have on global sea-level rise.
3 giorni fa · Aug. 18, 2021 —. Sep. 8, 2020 —. Oct. 9, 2019 —. Glaciologists show evidence of warm ocean water intruding kilometers beneath grounded ice at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The ...
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