A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica
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“We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.”
A hole as large as Lake Superior or the state of Maine has opened up in Antarctica, and scientists aren't sure why it's there.
The gigantic, mysterious hole "is quite remarkable," atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, told me over the phone. "It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice."
An image of the hole in the sea ice. Image: MODIS-Aqua via NASA Worldview; sea ice contours from AMSR2 ASI via University of Bremen
Areas of open water surrounded by sea ice, such as this one, are known as polynias. They form in coastal regions of Antarctica, Moore told me. What's strange here, though, is that this polynia is "deep in the ice pack," he said, and must have formed through other processes that aren't understood.
"This is hundreds of kilometres from the ice edge. If we didn't have a satellite, we wouldn't know it was there." (It measured 80,000 k㎡ at its peak.)
A polynia was observed in the same location, in Antarctica's Weddell Sea, in the 1970s, according to Moore, who's been working with the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling (SOCCOM) group, based at Princeton University, to analyze what's going on. Back then, scientists' observation tools weren't nearly as good, so that hole remained largely unstudied. Then it went away for four decades, until last year, when it reopened for a few weeks. Now it's back again.
"This is now the second year in a row it's opened after 40 years of not being there," Moore said. (It opened around September 9.) "We're still trying to figure out what's going on."
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It happens
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@DoUwant2go2Heaven end times is near
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Joker_De_La_Lover wrote: »It happens"This is now the second year in a row it's opened after 40 years of not being there," Moore said. (It opened around September 9.) "We're still trying to figure out what's going on."
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the white walkers did it
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Its either reptilians or the hole that helps guides the disk that the earth is
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Its either reptilians or the hole that helps guides the disk that the earth is
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2stepz_ahead wrote: »Its either reptilians or the hole that helps guides the disk that the earth is
Might be where they clone celebrities and politicians also -
It's the mouth of the Earth yawning duh
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Link?
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@DoUwant2go2Heaven end times is near
Amen.
The fallen ones are getting ready. Apollyon and all his friends know they are about to get out and wreck havoc like never before! The big day is coming. Woe worth the day! -
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Global warming
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https://youtu.be/5_bNKtOGLng
https://youtu.be/jYTpPT9QTCw
But.......but......but....... it's just a Disney movie! There's no meaning behind it! Just fairytales!
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Fake news.
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Without the satellite they wouldn't have known it was there.....
Guess there could have been a bunch of holes, then no holes, then holes, then no holes.... how the ? would we know? Could be 100% normal earth behavior. -
BiblicalAtheist wrote: »Without the satellite they wouldn't have known it was there.....
Guess there could have been a bunch of holes, then no holes, then holes, then no holes.... how the ? would we know? Could be 100% normal earth behavior.
@BiblicalAtheist
Speaking of holes:
I have a question about your backside. -
Whoever smellt it dealt it
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Let's just say thisit's a giant mysterious hole
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BiblicalAtheist wrote: »Let's just say thisit's a giant mysterious hole
Do you ever feel the need to............"fill that void?" -
BiblicalAtheist wrote: »Let's just say thisit's a giant mysterious hole
Do you ever feel the need to............"fill that void?"
Sometimes, but that's why I got a crisper full of eggplants. -
? her right in the ?