Antarctica on Google
Science / Earth
Friday December 09, 2011
Paul Morin and his mapmakers at the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota are doing all they can to ensure the whole world can get a good look at Antarctica by teaming up with Google. The Internet giant is putting high-resolution satellite imagery of the continent into its mapping applications.

Roof Over Antarctica
Features / Back in the Day
Friday December 09, 2011
Virtually unknown outside the world of academia and polar adventurers, the Transantarctic Mountains bisect the continent of Antarctica for 2,400 kilometers. Few people are as intimately knowledgeable about Antarctica's great mountain range as geologist Edmund Stump, who has written a book about the region's early expeditions.