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Scientists have discovered massive, slow-motion “ice quakes” trembling twice a day through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, an Alaska-sized swath of Antarctica. Detective work has traced the source of the shaking to the Whillans Ice Stream, a glacier 100...
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The most detailed, high-resolution map of Antarctica has been produced for the first time. More than a thousand images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite have been...
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British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge Douglas Wiens England Environment ice quakes Landsat 7 satellite Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica NASA National Science Foundation Sridhar Anandakrishnan U.S. Geological Survey West Antarctic Ice Sheet
