Elevation Map of a Drained Sub-Glacial Lake in Greenland (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Elevation Map of a Drained Sub-Glacial Lake in Greenland

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Researchers at The Ohio State University were creating the highest-resolution maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet made to date, when they discovered a crater, shown here, which had once been the site of a sub-glacial lake.

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Image made by Ian Howat, using a Worldview image copyright DigitalGlobe Inc.

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