NASA with assistance of the American geological service creates the most detailed Antarctic map which on details will excel others in ten times. In NASA press-service RIA News informed that the opportunity of creation of such a map appeared when they received more than thousand pictures from the satellite Landsat 7.
” These pictures give us unimaginably detailed views of an ice surface of Antarctic and even of those areas which have never been put on maps “, - has told the head of Goddard Grinbelt NASA scientific laboratory of hydrosphere and biosphere (state Maryland) Robert Bindschadler. It was he, who was in charge of pictures selection for mapping.
In NASA informed that till the summer 2007 the great number of pictures will be loaded on a site in Internet. This site was created by scientists of NASA, US geological service and English service on Antarctic Region study.

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