Aerial view (IMAGE)

University of Southampton

Aerial view

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Antarctica’s fast-moving Byrd Glacier courses through the Transantarctic Mountains, flowing from the polar plateau (left) to the Ross Ice Shelf (right). In this colour infrared satellite image, red patches mark exposed rock. The researchers propose that mountain uplift seeded ice sheet formation

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United States Geological Survey

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