After Scanning Below the Antarctic Ice, Scientists Found Secret That May Change the Future

Published on February 10, 2021
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A New Method

The remaining uncharted regions making up Antarctica’s map needed a different approach to what was currently being used. That’s when these scientists decided to use the mass conservation method to fill these gaps. This method is a law in physics.

A New Method

A New Method

Mass Conservation

By these researchers following the law of mass conservation, the team successfully established how much ice is present in the sunken valleys of the continent. This process is said to have involved satellite data, which determined precisely how much ice was moving across Antarctica.

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Mass Conservation

Mass Conservation