What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
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What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
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Re: What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
#2That Denham canyon is interesting AF.
Re: What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
#3I'm always amazed at the science we can do. We can measure gravity with satellite constellations so precisely, we can estimate surface features from that. We have ice penetrating radar. We measure glacier velocity. Dive under glaciers.
And yet I'm saddened by the huge waste of it all, as this can be brushed away by one "charismatic" speaker that enough masses will follow. Voters will not want to do anything. People burn their gas stoves out of spite.
Re: What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
#4I wonder if the locations researchers are staying at are located on top of the land or if it's just randomly located and could be either. Like if all (or a majority of) the ice melted how big of an impact would it have on the locations?
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#5Note that this isn’t necessarily what the continent would look like if all the ice melts.
The lack of ice weight would allow the land to rebound upwards:
https://polarjournal.ch/en/2022/07/13/what-greenland-and-ant...
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#6Quite odd article, when I click on picture to enlarge it, it opens completely different site and article from 3 years ago
https://scitechdaily.com/high-precision-map-shows-what-the-l...
Which I assume is using data from here
Re: What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
#7Antarctica looks like a very interesting land, perhaps because it is forbidden to us. Still, with that geography alone I wish we could swap its place with something like Australia. Perhaps with advanced geo-engineering it would be possible to someday rotate the earth in such a way that Australia ends up at the South Pole and Antarctica is uplifted to a warmer climate.
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Re: What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like?
#9Antarctica looks like a very interesting land, perhaps because it is forbidden to us. Still, with that geography alone I wish we could swap its place with something like Australia. Perhaps with advanced geo-engineering it would be possible to someday rotate the earth in such a way that Australia ends up at the South Pole and Antarctica is uplifted to a warmer climate.
A celestial collision would probably be the only thing that could do that. The nimby crowd would also be an issue.
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#10Antarctica probably looks a lot like much of Canada, Norway, and Chile.
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