Crater Left behind by a Drained Sub-Glacial Lake in Greenland (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Crater Left behind by a Drained Sub-Glacial Lake in Greenland

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In April 2014, researchers flew over a site in southwest Greenland to find that a sub-glacial lake had drained away. This photo shows the crater left behind, as well as a deep crack in the ice.

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Photo by Stephen Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, courtesy of The Ohio State University.

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