Community | December 01, 2007 | 5 comments

NASA unveils a clear map of Antarctica

source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,520374,00.html

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Don't you hate it when you're looking at a map of Antarctica, and it's blurry and inconsistent?

So does the team behind LIMA (Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica), a map that is composed of high-resolution images from a NASA satellite. LIMA offers "accurate, true-color images of the polar region."

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5 comments // NASA unveils a clear map of Antarctica

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    • PAH! They've been around for hundreds of years! NASA is just catching up to the knowledge of our ancients.

      No-one has quite solved the mystery of the Piri Reis map in which the north coast of Antarctica is accurately depicted. The map is from the 16th century - a time much like ours when the coast of Antarctica was covered with a VERY thick layer of ice.

      The only way we can map Antarctica's coast is using very sophisticated sonar technology - beaming it through the ice. I think, if my memory serves me correctly, this was only done as recently as the 1970's, and yet this 16th century map had already depicted it.....

      Strange eh?

    • 4 years ago
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