Sharing Their Findings With The World

Even better, you can access the results and the raw data used in the study yourself. The information set made available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center has everything from the ice thickness in various areas to surface elevation measurements.

If you have the patience to pour over the data, you may even discover one of the most significant revelations that Morlighem and his team learned from it. Aside from being the best map of the Antarctic landscape sans the ice, the map they created found a record-breaking canyon lurking beneath the White Continent.