Using the latest technology to map what’s hidden beneath—and within—Greenland’s ice, researchers have found huge ancient river systems, unexpected ice flow, and troubling melting patterns.

The highest-resolution maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet are debuting. Starting with Worldview satellite imagery, The maps are already revealing previously unknown features on the ice sheet.

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany have used satellite data to map elevation and elevation changes in both Greenland and Antarctica. The new maps are the most complete ...

Called a digital elevation model (DEM), the map incorporates a year's worth of observations and about 7.5 million ... Satellite maps Greenland’s height. Video, 00:00:47 Satellite maps Greenland ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. "NASA flights map summer melt of Greenland ice sheet." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 September 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 09 / 170908205426.htm>.

Nasa has revealed the first map showing exactly what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed. Experts say the information is key to better predicting how the ice sheet ...

Despite these differences, the scientists were “very excited” to find that the measurements of the Greenland ice sheet’s elevation change largely agreed, with 3 percent of what is actually ...

Operation IceBridge is flying in Greenland to measure how much ice has melted over the course of the summer from the ice sheet. The flights, which began on Aug. 25 and will go on until Sept. 21 ...