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, motherboard.vice.com reports n the following article:
The gigantic, mysterious hole “is quite remarkable,” atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus said. “It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice.”
Areas of open water surrounded by sea ice, such as this one, are known as polynias. They form in coastal regions of Antarctica. What’s strange here, though, is that this polynia is “deep in the ice pack,” and must have formed through other processes that aren’t understood.
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