NASA completed the first glacial map of Antarctica

The first complete map of the speed and direction of the Antarctic glaciers has been completed by scientists under the auspices of NASA, the US National Air and Space Administration, said today. /8.

'We feel like the first time we have seen all the ocean currents,' said Eric Rignot at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The map of glaciers is an important tool to monitor sea level rise due to climate change

Eric Rignot and DDH California have used billions of data points collected by satellites of Europe, Japan, and Canada to remove cloud cover, the glare of the sun and areas that seem to be obscured with the help of NASA technology, the team carefully assembled each data point to create the shape and calculate the flow rate including East Antarctica, the previous area. never on the map accounted for 77% of the entire Antarctic.

When the map was completed, the scientists were surprised to find a new mountain split 5.4 million square miles stretching from east to west and the amount of snow and ice moving at 800 feet per year. toward the Antarctic sea.

'The map shows the ice moving by sliding on the ground,' said Thomas Wagner, who works for NASA's cryospheric program. 'This is an important platform to predict future sea level'.