Thanks rickmichaels.
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Posted on 06/08/2013 4:14:15 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The Antarctic continent is a frozen landscape of snow and sleet, but a new map from NASA exposes what the region would look like if all the ice were to disappear.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Does it have a central mosque and prayer rugs around it
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Not yet.
That is really fascinating. I wonder how tall that mountain range down the center is. As tall as the Himalayas? The Rockies?
The Mountains of Madness...
I think you are on a good idea, ice or not. Let's ship them off.
The Mountains of Madness?
This topography 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's Goddard Space Flight Center)
Three miles high at the peak.
No doubt we will be able to see it for ourselves in a few years, per Al Gore and James Hansen and their ilk. /s
reminds me of Afghanistan.
Only uninhabited, so a BIG improvement.
Ooooooh, this is kinda cool (as it were)
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctic-map.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/753090main_bedmap2.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/753191main_AA_bedrock_surface.4960.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/753093main_icebridge%20flight%20lines.jpg
http://www.google.com/images?q=Bedmap2&oi=image_result_group
This is how it will look after Al Gore gets through blowing hot air all over it.
Pretty neat! A while back I ran across an article about several “dry” valleys in Antarctica that actually are snow-less and have small, hypersaline lakes that never freeze. Pretty eerie stuff.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/23863/vacation-mars-antarcticas-dry-valleys
Hard to believe that these are actual places on Earth!
I wonder if they've done some astronaut training there.
About 50 to 300 million years ago, Antarctica was a tropical type climate. It had dinosaurs from about 200 million years ago to about 60 million years.
Yet I suppose that under the pressure of all that ice, fossils must be few and far between, most having been ground down for gravel and dust.
Our old hangout is now the headquarters for P.E.T.A. - South Pole.
OMG!!!! It’s Middle Earth!!!!
There will no doubt be further work done on that range but Antarctica seems to be positioned at the Souf' Pole ~ PERIOD! The nicer spots show up when other continents link to it's larger masses, but that's always in the lower latitudes.
Adding confusion to the matter there's the recent discovery (or more likely 'demonstration') that Antarctic ice sheets melt from the bottom, not the top!
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