Sastrugi in Antarctica (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Sastrugi in Antarctica

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Antarctica is covered with sastrugi -- concrete-hard snow drifts -- for thousands of miles in every direction.

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Kelly Brunt, courtesy National Science Foundation

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