{"id":5581,"date":"2013-06-04T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/mapping-antarcticas-bedrock\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T13:56:11","slug":"mapping-antarcticas-bedrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/mapping-antarcticas-bedrock\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Antarctica&#8217;s Bedrock"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/753090main_bedmap2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px;\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathancrowe.net\/images\/2013\/antarctica-bedmap2.jpg\" alt=\"Bedmap2 topography map of Antarctica (NASA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA-GFSC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/antarctic-map.html\">NASA has released an updated map<\/a> of the bedrock <em>beneath<\/em> the Antarctic ice sheet; the map, called Bedmap2, adds considerable detail\u2014a tighter grid and millions of data points\u2014to its decade-old predecessor. The image above exaggerates vertical scale by a factor of 17 to increase visibility. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/usDzh7l5HZw\">this short video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has released an updated map of the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet; the map, called Bedmap2, adds considerable detail\u2014a tighter grid and millions of data points\u2014to its decade-old predecessor. The image above exaggerates&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/mapping-antarcticas-bedrock\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[841,12],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-geology","tag-antarctica","tag-nasa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5745,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/new-maps-show-greenlands-glaciers-at-risk\/","url_meta":{"origin":5581,"position":0},"title":"New Maps Show Greenland&#8217;s Glaciers at Risk","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: \"New maps of Greenland's coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as previously thought.\u00a0Researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), NASA and 30 other institutions have\u00a0published\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/greenland-glaciers-300x254.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/map-of-thawed-areas-under-greenlands-ice-sheet\/","url_meta":{"origin":5581,"position":1},"title":"Map of Thawed Areas Under Greenland&#8217;s Ice Sheet","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA: \"NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed\u2014 key information in better predicting how the ice sheet will react to a warming climate.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"greenland-melt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/greenland-melt-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/greenland-melt-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/greenland-melt-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/greenland-melt-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1791231,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/06\/veritas-mission-to-map-venus-later-this-decade\/","url_meta":{"origin":5581,"position":2},"title":"VERITAS Mission to Map Venus Later This Decade","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 June 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"VERITAS is one of two missions to Venus announced by NASA last week. 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