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Best-Ever Antarctic Maps from NASA
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on Monday January 30, @07:44AM
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from the warm-those-scientists dept.
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This press release tells us that most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent has been created with the help of RADARSAT-1. Here's the Mosaic of Antarctica on NASA's website. From the PR: "The Mosaic removes the terrain distortion and produces a more accurate and natural-looking view of the continent and its very subtle surface features. "Using the Mosaic map together with the Canadian satellite, RADARSAT, is a real breakthrough," says Ted Scambos, one of the creators of the Mosaic at NSIDC. "The Mosaic shows the snow and rock surface almost perfectly, and RADARSAT reveals some of the features below the snow. It's very informative.""
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The GeoNames blog informs us the addition of 18,104 new GeoNames places for Antarctica. From the entry: "The CGA [Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica] is compiled by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) who have kindly given us the permission to use their data under the condition that we publish the disclaimer below. The CGA is itself an aggregator and includes data from 23 sources from 22 countries. 12′000 features are from US sources, Russia and the UK both contribute 4′800 places." Make sure you read this previous entry on data over Antarctica, more below.
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