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Ice Sheet Secrets Set to Be Seen
from the BBC News Online
The secrets of the largest ice sheet on earth are to be revealed under plans to map the Antarctic landscape in detail for the first time.
A team including Edinburgh scientists is to travel across East Antarctica in a four-year project to explore the land hidden beneath the ice-covered region.
Radar instruments will be used to penetrate the ice, which is several kilometres thick. They hope to examine the composition and density of the underlying rock. The area covers an area that is half the size of the United States.
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