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NASA map shows what Antarctica would look like without ice
CBC News ^ | JUNE 7, 2013

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; catastrophism; charleshapgood; crustaldisplacement; nasa; randflemath; roseflemath
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1 posted on 06/08/2013 4:14:15 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

Does it have a central mosque and prayer rugs around it
?


2 posted on 06/08/2013 4:18:17 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: al baby

Not yet.


3 posted on 06/08/2013 4:24:56 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: rickmichaels

That is really fascinating. I wonder how tall that mountain range down the center is. As tall as the Himalayas? The Rockies?


4 posted on 06/08/2013 4:32:47 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: boop

The Mountains of Madness...


5 posted on 06/08/2013 4:33:35 PM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: al baby
Does it have a central mosque and prayer rugs around it?

I think you are on a good idea, ice or not. Let's ship them off.

6 posted on 06/08/2013 4:34:42 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: rickmichaels

The Mountains of Madness?


7 posted on 06/08/2013 4:35:04 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...

Thanks rickmichaels.


8 posted on 06/08/2013 4:56:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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An extra to APoD members.
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)

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)

9 posted on 06/08/2013 4:58:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: boop

Three miles high at the peak.


10 posted on 06/08/2013 5:04:17 PM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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To: rickmichaels

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


11 posted on 06/08/2013 5:04:41 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: SunkenCiv

reminds me of Afghanistan.

Only uninhabited, so a BIG improvement.


12 posted on 06/08/2013 5:04:47 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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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


13 posted on 06/08/2013 5:05:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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This is how it will look after Al Gore gets through blowing hot air all over it.


14 posted on 06/08/2013 5:06:11 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican, no Conservative was on the ballot.)
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To: rickmichaels

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


15 posted on 06/08/2013 5:06:22 PM PDT by DemforBush (Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
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Wow! Those are some cool pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Hard to believe that these are actual places on Earth!

I wonder if they've done some astronaut training there.

16 posted on 06/08/2013 5:18:51 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: rickmichaels

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.


17 posted on 06/08/2013 5:22:42 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: rickmichaels

Our old hangout is now the headquarters for P.E.T.A. - South Pole.

18 posted on 06/08/2013 5:45:05 PM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: al baby

OMG!!!! It’s Middle Earth!!!!


19 posted on 06/08/2013 5:55:28 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Not necessarily so ~ the Ghost Mountains appear to have been iced in 500,000,000 years ago ~ and are as sharp and clear of weathering as they were when they first popped up.

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!

20 posted on 06/08/2013 6:05:40 PM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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