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2 days ago · An arial view of the Maud Rise polynya. Scientists were baffled as to how this formed but now have an explanation. NASA Earth Observatory. Interactions between the wind and the ocean currents have ...
1 day ago · Arial view of the Maud Rise polynya NASA Earth Observatory. ... The mysterious Maud Rise polynya is named after an oceanic plateau in the Weddell Sea, plunging to depths of about 1,000 meters.
1 day ago · An aerial view of the Maud Rise polynya. ... The Maud Rise polynya is located near the Maud Rise, an underwater mountain. In 2016 and 2017, due to the stronger current, salt hovered around this ...
2 days ago · photos by Liam Doran . The Antarctic Peninsula is home to the unlikely. From a place where Shackleton and his men simply hoped to survive 100-plus years ago to the frozen home of a geopolitical turf war during and after WWII, to being a ski touring hub off a luxury cruise ship today, the peninsula seems utterly unchanged and miraculously unmarred by human activity.
2 days ago · Arial view of the Maud Rise Polynya. Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 and 2017.
3 days ago · Image: Arial view of Maud Rise polynya. Credit NASA Earth Observatory; Additional information. The University of Southampton drives original thinking, turns knowledge into action and impact, and ...
5 hours ago · An aerial view of the Maud Rise polynya. Scientists have finally discovered what’s causing a Switzerland-size hole to repeatedly open up in Antarctica’s sea ice. Researchers first spotted the hole, called the Maud Rise polynya, in 1974 and 1976 in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, and since then it has reappeared fleetingly ...
