This Is What Antarctica Looks Like Beneath the Ice

This Is What Antarctica Looks Like Beneath the Ice

This Is What Antarctica Looks Like Beneath the Ice The Bedmap2 topography beneath Antarctic ice. (Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The ice caps are melting. Sea levels will rise. Climate change is reshaping the Earth. But what would an iceless world look like? NASA has an idea. In 2013, NASA created Bedmap2, a detailed topographical model—or suite of gridded products—showing the bedrock landscape underneath icy Antarctica, as well as sea…