Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey made the map using data gathered over three research seasons in Antarctica by dragging a radar sensor behind a snowmobile over Pine Island Glacier.

As such, our Polarstern expedition in February 2017 was an unprecedented opportunity to map 370 square kilometres of an area that had previously largely been covered by the Pine Island Glacier's ...

Pine Island Glacier and its neighbor Thwaites Glacier are the gateway to a massive cache of frozen water, one that would raise global sea levels by four feet if it were all to spill into the sea.

Figure 1: Map and satellite imagery of the study area ... matching bedforms mapped from ship-based observations in Pine Island Bay 21. The outer slope of the ridge is smoother, indicating a ...

The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing above the Pine Island glacier would typically be a sight obfuscated by clouds. But on Oct. 10, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA helped ...