{"id":84572,"date":"2018-11-07T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-continents-under-antarctica"},"modified":"2018-11-07T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:42:29","slug":"data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-continents-under-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-continents-under-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-continents-under-antarctica.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These maps sketch out the remnants of long-lost landmasses trapped within drifting continental plates called cratons. While some cratons are already well-understood, Antarctica\u2019s lithospheric structure is tough to examine because of its remote location and the enormous ice sheets that obscure its underlying geology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth\u2014Antarctica,\u201d said study co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, science leader of geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/GOCE\/ESA_s_gravity-mapper_reveals_relics_of_ancient_continents_under_Antarctic_ice\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement.<\/a> \u201cIn East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/yw7z95\/data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-continents-under-antarctica\">https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/yw7z95\/data-from-...antarctica<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These maps sketch out the remnants of long-lost landmasses trapped within drifting continental plates called cratons. While some cratons are already well-understood, Antarctica\u2019s lithospheric structure is tough to examine because of its remote location and the enormous ice sheets that obscure its underlying geology. \u201cThese gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}