Explosion at a Brazilian naval base in Antarctica. Two people were missing and another was injured

Two people were missing, and another person was injured Saturday after an explosion caused a fire at a Brazilian naval base in Antarctica, military sources announced.
The accident led to the evacuation of about 40 researchers.
The Brazilian Navy, the fire in the building's electrical generators Comandante Ferraz base, located on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula near the top.
Wounded soldier, whose condition is stable, has received initial care to the polish, being later transferred to the Chilean Eduardo Frei, Brazilian Navy announced in a statement.

Brazilian Navy personnel working to control the fire.
About 30 researchers, a alipinist a Brazilian Environment Ministry representative present in the plant when the accident were evacuated Chilean territory, according to the Brazilian Navy.
Air Force of Chile have said, in turn, that 48 Brazilian and two Spaniards were evacuated by helicopter to the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, located about 3090 kilometers south of Santiago.
"The information we have, the would be completely destroyed," said Chilean Defense Minister Andrés Allamanda CNN Chile. He added that in total 45 people were evacuated from the Brazilian.
Allamanda said that the two missing people were "probably dead" and that the Chilean provided care to a wounded, while other aprozimativ ten people received medical care at the Frei.
In addition, polar research ship Almirante Maximiano Brazilian left Punta Arenas heading towards the scene.
Base Comandante Ferraz performs scientific research on marine ecosystems, especially in the coastal zone.

Satellite radar imagery reveals 'amazing flows' of Antarctic ice

The first detailed map of ice flow across the entire continent of Antarctica has been developed, showing "amazing flows" from the continent's center.

"We're seeing amazing flows from the heart of the continent that had never been described before," said researcher Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California at Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory. "This is like seeing a map of all the oceans' currents for the first time."

Since the vast majority of Earth's ice is located on Antarctica, and melting polar ice sheets could potentially dramatically raise sea level, the new digital mosaic released on Thursday could help researchers understand how Antarctica might change under the steadily warming global climate.

Antarctica's ice sheet is made up of glaciers, which are essentially slowly flowing rivers of ice. The glaciers end in ice shelves, which float on the ocean's surface and occasionally spawn icebergs.

Conventionally, ground-based stations measure Antarctic ice movements, but there are relatively few stations compared with the size of the southernmost continent, which has led to an incomplete picture of these motions.

To look over all of Antarctica, the new map incorporated high-resolution satellite radar data of the continent's ice flows from the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency between 2007 and 2009.

It reveals that ice motions on Antarctica depend mostly on a vast, complex network of narrow rivers of ice reaching hundreds of miles over the whole of the continent.