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03-01-2018, 07:58 AM
The ice on Lake Michigan has turned blue. Here's why.
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The ice on portions of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue, but don't worry, there's a perfectly good reason why.*
The phenomenon is common on glaciers, but not so much on large swathes of lake ice. It's happening where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron, at a place called the Straits of Mackinac. There, fat slabs and mounds of cracked blue ice have collected near the shorelines.
Local photographer Tori Burley (http://www.trilliumandpine.com/) captured the image above.*
SEE ALSO: Gas-filled vessel barrels solo through pathetic Arctic sea ice during dead of winter (https://mashable.com/2018/02/14/arctic-ship-eduard-toll-navigates-northern-sea-route-without-icebreaker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The ice, however, is not actually turning blue. The color is a result of the way sunlight is bouncing off this particular ice, explained Ted Scambos, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in an interview.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/blue-ice-on-lake-michigan-explained/)
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The ice on portions of Michigan's Great Lakes has turned blue, but don't worry, there's a perfectly good reason why.*
The phenomenon is common on glaciers, but not so much on large swathes of lake ice. It's happening where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron, at a place called the Straits of Mackinac. There, fat slabs and mounds of cracked blue ice have collected near the shorelines.
Local photographer Tori Burley (http://www.trilliumandpine.com/) captured the image above.*
SEE ALSO: Gas-filled vessel barrels solo through pathetic Arctic sea ice during dead of winter (https://mashable.com/2018/02/14/arctic-ship-eduard-toll-navigates-northern-sea-route-without-icebreaker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The ice, however, is not actually turning blue. The color is a result of the way sunlight is bouncing off this particular ice, explained Ted Scambos, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, in an interview.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/blue-ice-on-lake-michigan-explained/)
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