Quite an Aesthetically Pleasing Rock
Katabatic winds blow down the side of the Patriot Hills, part of the Ellsworth Mountain Range in Antarctica, causing sublimation of the ice surface. The blue ice looks like glass or water.
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- Polar regions (184)
- Antarctic (112)
- Exact location (-81.7383 W, -80.2757 S)
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5472 × 3648 px;
image/jpeg; 6.6 MB
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Sony DSC-RX100
Taken on 16
January
2015
Submitted on Feb. 8, 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Helen Millman (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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