The Value of Google Earth’s Antarctic Expedition

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By Time | 20 July 2012 | 175

Antarctica is the definition of remote. The southern-most continent on the planet is also the coldest and most forbidding; the only way to get there is via countless plane flights, and just about the only people who travel there are scientists. Also, there are penguins. But as far away as it is to most of us, Antarctica is incredibly important to the planet—and the changes going on deep down under will have effects that we’ll all feel. “It is a harbinger for what is going to happen in the rest of the world,” says Brad Herried, a research fellow at the Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota. Read More