GPS Used to Discover Rise of Bedrock in Antarctica (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

GPS Used to Discover Rise of Bedrock in Antarctica

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Terry Wilson, professor emeritus of earth sciences at The Ohio State University, assembles a GPS antenna on a monument fixed to bedrock. This GPS unit is at Westhaven Nunatak in the Transantarctic Mountains.

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The Polar Earth Observing Network

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