The hidden face of Antarctica, concealed for more than 30 million years beneath thick ice, is revealed in a new map and video of the continent's rocky surface, released today by NASA.

The project, called BedMap2, is part of an international collaboration led by the British Antarctic Survey to calculate the total extent of ice in Antarctica — an essential step in predicting potential future sea level rise. To do so, researchers needed to know the details of the continent's underlying topography, from broad valleys to buried mountain ranges

Read more: http://www.livescience.com/37150-antarctica-ice-free-map.html#ixzz2VNl6loma

Freaky. I hope we never have to live in a world of un-iced Antarctica.

Un-iced Antartica = Underwater America