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A New Antarctica -- Found! A New Look at Earth's Oldest Ice.

posted November 28, 2007 - 6:50am
A New Antarctica -- Found! A New Look at Earth's Oldest Ice.

A New Antarctica, Found. New Look at Earth's Oldest Ice.


Image: NASA

Researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey teamed together to unveil a newly completed map of Antarctica, expected to revolutionize research of the continent's icy landscape. It is a much more detailed view, with higher resolution for the entire continent of Antarctica.

You can instantly see the difference! Compare these images with part of the same area, below.

Image: NASA, (left) USGS Landsat 7 --(right) NASA MODIS Terra, Aqua

There are a few glitches -- but they will be fixed. Volume is probably really high! If you do not get logged in or the site is unavailable it is either glitches or way more volume than anticipated! Keep trying!

If you use this link:
http://lima.usgs.gov/
or this link:
http://lima.usgs.gov/view_lima.php
Begin exploring Antarctica in vast and unprecedented detail!

Landsat images DO NOT cover the south pole! (TOO Bad!) Other orbiters did get the pole coverage, but it is really, really, really all ICE, several km deep. Why else build Ice Cube in a Cubic km of Clear Ice? at the pole? So don't expect much on the image there! Everywhere else! Wow.

Everyone needs a piece of credit for this, and the British also have really contributed.

Read about it here -- and follow the NASA links!

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/lima_feature.html



Comments

An Extract of the Play to thank you!

Well, I have put two of the extracts from two of my self-written plays for the readers. Thanks!

Well, I feel my works are banned!

Thanks for your sincere and deadly honest comments. I had many works on these works. Firstly, I made an effort to produce the natural gas and the fertilizer for saving the planet. It was successful experiment at Madras Research Center. The IAS, who took it there never mentioned my name in the research and got his degree and the job. I made the writings based on the research works with more than 50 books, and was called to meet Mr. Bill Clinton to discuss about these issues. The NGO working with the Charitable Trust for which I serve interfered and I could not go. My books on these themes are not being published for one or the other reason from last 12 years. I did it through practical even on my own body and through meditation, but I feel that the politicians and the businessmen along with the UNO and the NGO's have the strong hold over everything. My spiritual master told me that it is their time so I should wait and see, as they have tactics for making money without bothering about such issues, they are the real actors, the pretenders. However, I appreciate your sincerity and dedication for such good cause. If I put these as articles, I will have only one loss that it will take up my book forms. I have written the 25 plays for it, for western and the eastern people, but even the first one is waiting to get published at the Lulu.com. Thanks for sharing so sincerely. May God Help Us!

Thank you. Ironically, you could add more than a conceptual

Thank you Dr Harmander Singh. I know from reading much of what you have been posting that you could offer more than a conceptual level or an artistic interpretation to the malady Big Carbon and it's parasitic Bush Family and Friends group have helped this species walk into. Ultimately it is extinction, deaths of billions, mainly from starvation in a great human die-off. But by the time humans die-off in an AGW event so many other life forms that should have a chance at survival as well -- will become extinct. Profit for a few at the cost of a planet. (And yes, the Aliens stopped by, and asked, "Wanna sell it?" And the Bushes and Friends jumping for joy! said "Sure." The Aliens then said, "If you folks fix it we'll give you top dollar, and find you a nice home nearer the core. But you gotta get that carbon out of the air soon or it is worthless.") Since you are intimately embraced of the trappings of India/Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent region, do a thought experiment where sea level has risen 6 meters and India is trying to absorb 85 million refugees plus her own teaming thirsty billion souls. Tell us of India in 100 years under this Carbon regime. It is too soon even then to see the Antarctic sliding into the ocean, but Greenland will be at least 1/3 glacier-ice-free... I'd be interested in your ideas of India's climate future, and most of the mountain ice water vanished. . .taking salt from the water -- just to drink the rising seas . . . Some fiction perhaps. Thanks for the comments!

Well, I suppose exploring needs caring!

Well, you see it is good to explore, but we seem to have the more than a need as we are having no options for another chance for global problems, particularly the environmental ones, as you are already aware. The melting poles seem the tears falling from the eyes of our earth. We may stop it, if we try. Thanks for sharing.

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