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'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth (fortune.com)
Antarctica has become the best-mapped continent on Earth with a new high-resolution terrain map showing the ice-covered landmass in unprecedented detail. From a report: According to the scientists at Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota who created the imagery, Antarctica is now the best-mapped continent on Earth. The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) was constructed using hundreds of thousands of satellite images taken between 2009 and 2017, Earther reports. A supercomputer assembled the massive amounts of data, including the elevation of the land over time, and created REMA, an immensely detailed topographical map, with a file size over 150 terabytes. The new map has a resolution of 2 to 8 meters, compared to the usual 1,000 meters, says an Ohio State press release. According to The New York Times, the detail of this new map is the equivalent of being able to see down to a car, or smaller, when before you could only see the whole of Central Park. Scientists now know the elevation of every point of Antarctica, with an error margin of just a few feet.
This can be used as a baseline for climate change study.
snow.... snow.... snow.... snow... snow... snow... snow... hollyfuck, an Ancients outpost and.... snow.... snow.... snow...
At that resolution we should be able to see the abandoned Dornier flying boats used by the Dyer Expedition.
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only ice and snow.
That's interesting; I wonder why. I imagine that even accounting for climate change, the lack of human habitation likely makes many of those images more or less static, whereas the more lived-in continents likely have a lot more change due to urbanization?
Or is it perhaps the attention on it due to climate change studies means there's just so many pictures? I imagine any change in Antarctica could be more attributable to global warming than changes in say Europe.
"I can see my house from here!"
Lat.: -86.097149 Long.:101.275264
... does it really exist?
Check your premises.
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"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
" According to The New York Times, the detail of this new map is the equivalent of being able to see down to a car, or smaller, when before you could only see the whole of Central Park."
Wow! There's a park and cars under the ice in Antarctica?!
#DeleteChrome
Drawn in 1513, showing the Antiartica without ice. I wonder how accurate it really is. Better yet, will they ever let us know how accurate it is?
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
"[...] with an error margin of just a few feet."
This stinks.
Just think what terrorists can do with this???
Aka perfect smelly germ breeders.
I bet you can't see the hidden Nazi base over there
Let's take him home! Maybe he has a present for us!
I tried to use the web browser, just with the shaded terrain - zooming in anywhere near the level of interest most people would have, the terrain just vanished...
That was on the eastern side of the upper peninsula (the peninsula is where most people go when they visit Antartica).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I still can’t find a Starbucks there.
The edge of the flat Earth has to be down there somewhere.
I was actually looking for Lovecraft references. Come on, guys and gals, you can do better than that!
with the frozen aliens that crash landed down there?
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
... Flat Earthers call it all an elaborate fake hoax perpetrated by NASA to perpetuate the Globe Earth Conspiracy and pretend Antartica actually exists and isn't really a giant icewall surrounding the outside of the flat earth.
Sadly, this WILL happen.
I thought it was melting into the low ph ocean because of carbon pollution. Can't you alarmists get anything right?
This isn't possible. The Earth is flat...Antarctica is a lie. Wake up, sheeple!
More "scientists" in on the conspiracy. How much did they pay you, Ohio State? How much?!?
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The above is intended as humour. If you actually believe the Earth is flat, please seek professional help.
I can see Russia from there.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
In any case they've fiddled with the images, there's no trace of the Plateau of Leng, the Isle of Oriab, or any signs of the Pabodie Expedition camp.
Patrick Stewart has already seen everything - https://imgur.com/r/hqrg/zqVBn...
I see the hole where the rod for the axis goes. But where is that plastic thingy that marks the longitude?
I dont see the alien base.
...while they make NSA interns count blades of grass in old images of Pablo Escobar's estate.
JEpp.
--I hope they made a copy of that... On a ZFS-backed system, so they don't have to run a multi-month SHA1 or whatever checksum on the file... Good God, could you imagine the effects of bit-flip errors on that?
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
I hope we can now see the South Pole center area clearly, as before it was poorly stitched together.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Oh man still hiding the center 200km of the south pole.
http://www.maps.arcgis.com/app...
Looks like those hidden military bases are still safe.
Why is every other planet so much more clearly imaged to death to each pole in detail, but EARTH, the south pole is HIDDEN once again. And the usual excuses are 100% bullshit, as they mapped the moon and mars pretty well.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
I wonder what would happen if you publish a paper on the heritability of IQ.
That is all.
because the 1% percenters don't want you to know about that
oh and the alantern outpost - planetary defense platform because the us'ians's don't want you to know about that ...
he is a biggotted republican christian , thats probaly his most cherished sexual fanstasy ,
I assume this is done so that Dubai can know which parts to tow away first.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
1000 m resolution may have been the old standard for Antarctic maps, but first-world countries have long had much better maps than that. In the Netherlands, pretty much the whole country has been surveyed with an accuracy better than 1 m (by the Kadaster, the office that tracks land ownership).
They didn’t have to fiddle with the images for the Plateau of Leng, it moves constantly and since this is basically a collage of different photos from different times it just wasn’t ever captured...
Sorry honey, I can't pull you on a sled in Antarctica since I'm a little husky.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I pulled up Street View, and if didn't seem any better than the Bay Area.