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Discover Antarctic secrets
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Discover Antarctic secrets

The face that has always been hidden under the ice sheet of Antarctica has been exposed to the world, thanks to the new mapping technology of the US Aeronautics and Spac…

December 16, 2018
Find the answer to Antarctic paradox
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Find the answer to Antarctic paradox

Weather experts, after trying to explain the phenomenon of expanding Antarctic ice area, found the cause - warming the Earth.

December 16, 2018
Detecting strange life under Antarctic ice
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Detecting strange life under Antarctic ice

After more than a decade of intermittent exploration drilling, researchers in the country were finally able to penetrate the Antarctic's frozen crust last year and colle…

December 16, 2018
Antarctica was once warm
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Antarctica was once warm

In the warm period 52 million years ago, tropical plants were like palm trees, each covering the Antarctic coast. The sediment on the continental shelf near Antarctica h…

December 16, 2018
The mysterious lake movement in Antarctica
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The mysterious lake movement in Antarctica

Rivers and mountains can move positions over time, but at nearly half a kilometer in speed, science has never been seen. But that's exactly what is happening with a myst…

December 16, 2018
Mystery 'underworld' on the bottom of Antarctica
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Mystery 'underworld' on the bottom of Antarctica

Scientists have just completed the most detailed map of the sunken part of the white continent, which is a map of the Antarctic bottom mountain range. This startling ima…

December 16, 2018
NASA completed the first glacial map of Antarctica
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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 Ad…

December 16, 2018
Antarctica is rising
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Antarctica is rising

New Hampshire reports Donald Argus, a scientist from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), and colleagues using global positioning satellites data for 15 years to track Antarc…

December 16, 2018
Earth is belly fat because of climate change
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Earth is belly fat because of climate change

The ice in Antarctica and Greenland melting at 382 billion tons per year is creating a large amount of water flowing into the oceans. This amount of water is cornered to…

December 16, 2018