Blue Ice Iceberg in Antarctica
The blue iceberg is in Cierva Cove in the Antarctic Peninsula. Old Icebergs go through hundreds of thousands of years of compression and sometimes ongoing thawing and refreezing of the ice. As you go deeper and deeper into a glacier, the weight of the ice and snow above increases dramatically. As this pressure increases, the air that was originally trapped by the falling snow is forced out. As this happens, the reflective surfaces of our “snowflakes” get “crunched together” and in some cases can completely disappear. Since most of the reflective surfaces within this kind of iceberg have been eliminated, light hitting this iceberg no longer “bounces” off of millions of tiny mirrors. Instead, light is forced to travel through the Iceberg and penetrate deep enough to either find some internal surface to reflect back from or penetrate all the way through the iceberg.
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Location: Antarctica
Photo credit: © Robert Bush / Alamy / Afripics
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