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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
NASA elevation map of Antarctica shows it to be a "mountain island".
I've never seen a map quite mark elevation quite so clearly before now. This is quite interesting from the point of view of a flat earth possibility since the outer ice wall around flat earth is said to be 200 miles high. The above map is fairly consistent with the HIGHEST point being NEAR the South Pole. It didn't necessarily have to work out that way! Yet-- the area near the South Pole DOES have the HIGHEST elevation! On a flat earth, the South Pole is actually a PERIMETER around the entire EARTH POND.... and the flat earth theory has that perimeter as HIGHER than anything closer to the center of the Earth Pond. (This was a NASA map but I lost my link-- it's findable later again).
Recall this idea in the index below under ELEVATION of Antarctica map.
Felix pointed to a few more references in comments below that I'll repost here for convenience. One of the youtubes he pointed to was this one.
quote But thanks to NASA we can all visit Antarctica - a virtual journey from 1000 Satellte images 1999-2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfzui39WWT0 unquote
Rick's comment- I don't quite understand how this video can be a composite of 1000 satellite images given the look and feel of the video. The point-of-view seems to swoop downward and across ranges and move all around. It's not clear to me that this is not pure simulation.
This is a better version: http://www.climatewarmingcentral.com/images/antarctic_detail.jpg of the NASA map source: http://www.climatewarmingcentral.com/ice_page.html
The important area for sea rise associated with global warming is the obscure Western Antarctic area so devoid of research stations.....it's probably all measured by NASA satellites...... The above paper descrbes West Antarctica as being like Hawaii....but there's still a sizeable chunk of continent about 1000-1500m above sea level. It's a poor analogy. West Antarctica ice is decreasing rapidly so that in total Antarctic land ice as a whole is decreasing.
All of which seems dependent on NASA observations.
This is a map of Antarctica with the ice removed and the continent uplifted with the weight of ice taken away http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/east-antarctic-ice-sheet/#jp-carousel-5994
What strikes me about the Transantarctic mountains is that they don't go far across Antarctica. http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Antarctica_LIMA3.jpg
But thanks to NASA we can all visit Antarctica - a virtual journey from 1000 Satellte images 1999-2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfzui39WWT0
The British Antarcic Survey, based on 25 million measurements ! has produced this bedrock map BEDMAP-2 http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_research/az/bedmap2/images/bedmap2_preview.png source: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_research/az/bedmap2/index.php
I came across this NASA map of Antarctica http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=78592 The world’s first high-resolution, three-dimensional, true-color map of Antarctica was built from more than 1,100 images from the Landsat 7 satellite. To create the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), scientific visualizers combined Landsat 7 scenes (acquired between 1999 and 2001), a digital elevation model, and field data measurements. It took years to stitch the whole thing together for release in 2007.
NASA worked with the USGS, the National Science Foundation, and the British Antarctic Survey to create the map
It's seen in this NASA funded animation of ice flow at 0.26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8iWelvcd9U
The image: http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/78000/78592/antarctica_etm_2000001.jpg
antarctica_etm_2000001_lrg.jpg 11420x9702 JPEG 6 MB best to download and view. Not a very helpful map. This new view of Antarctica led to a surprising discovery about one of the continent’s iconic species: the Emperor penguin. “We were able to find entirely new colonies of Emperor penguins by looking at the Antarctica coastline from space,” says Peter Fretwell, a geographic information scientist at the British Antarctic Survey The feel-good wildlife story. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Gallery/landsat.php
Hi, I'm Captain Rick of the Virtual Circumference Voyage of Antarctica. I intend to prove definitively if Earth is flat or a sphere by paying careful attention to how many miles we cover as we travel "around" Antarctica. Flat earth theory says it's 50-60,000 miles. Spherical Earth theory says it 14,000 miles. Join me and ask any questions that you think would help our mission.
This is a better version:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.climatewarmingcentral.com/images/antarctic_detail.jpg of the NASA map
source: http://www.climatewarmingcentral.com/ice_page.html
The important area for sea rise associated with global warming is the obscure Western Antarctic area so devoid of research stations.....it's probably all measured by NASA satellites......
The above paper descrbes West Antarctica as being like Hawaii....but there's still a sizeable chunk of continent about 1000-1500m above sea level. It's a poor analogy.
West Antarctica ice is decreasing rapidly so that in total Antarctic land ice as a whole is decreasing.
All of which seems dependent on NASA observations.
This is a map of Antarctica with the ice removed and the continent uplifted with the weight of ice taken away
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/east-antarctic-ice-sheet/#jp-carousel-5994
What strikes me about the Transantarctic mountains is that they don't go far across Antarctica.
http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Antarctica_LIMA3.jpg
source
http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/east-antarctic-ice-sheet/
But thanks to NASA we can all visit Antarctica - a virtual journey from 1000 Satellte images 1999-2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfzui39WWT0
The British Antarcic Survey, based on 25 million measurements ! has produced this bedrock map BEDMAP-2
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_research/az/bedmap2/images/bedmap2_preview.png
source: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_research/az/bedmap2/index.php
I came across this NASA map of Antarctica
ReplyDeletehttp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=78592
The world’s first high-resolution, three-dimensional, true-color map of Antarctica was built from more than 1,100 images from the Landsat 7 satellite. To create the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), scientific visualizers combined Landsat 7 scenes (acquired between 1999 and 2001), a digital elevation model, and field data measurements. It took years to stitch the whole thing together for release in 2007.
NASA worked with the USGS, the National Science Foundation, and the British Antarctic Survey to create the map
It's seen in this NASA funded animation of ice flow at 0.26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8iWelvcd9U
The image:
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/78000/78592/antarctica_etm_2000001.jpg
antarctica_etm_2000001_lrg.jpg
11420x9702 JPEG 6 MB
best to download and view. Not a very helpful map.
This new view of Antarctica led to a surprising discovery about one of the continent’s iconic species: the Emperor penguin. “We were able to find entirely new colonies of Emperor penguins by looking at the Antarctica coastline from space,” says Peter Fretwell, a geographic information scientist at the British Antarctic Survey
The feel-good wildlife story.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Gallery/landsat.php