At the end of the years-long research project, NASA will have built a groundbreaking three-dimensional view of ice across both the north and south poles. The ice sheets—which often extend as far ...

The map, called Bedmap3, gives a clear view of the towering mountains and deep canyons hidden by the ice sheets. It was compiled using more than 60 years of data from planes, satellites ...

It consists of a combination of highly ordered "cold" spins and highly disordered "hot" spins, and it has thus been dubbed "half ice, half fire ... an external magnetic field, respectively ...