Snow-Ice Transition with Blooming Algae (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Snow-Ice Transition with Blooming Algae

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This photo shows the change in surface darkness as the cold dry white snow (left side of of image) starts melting to grey (centre of the image), to reveal the dark ice underneath (right side of image). The dots on the left are people to give a sense of the scale.

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Laura Halbach

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