Green ice spotted in Antarctica's Ross Sea triggers new expedition for April

• Main Author: Lieser, JL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ZME Science LLC 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Granite Harbor; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115290

On March 5th, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard the Landsat 8 snapped a few stunning pictures of Granite Harbor,Antarctica. This cove close to the Ross Sea sports an unusual shade of green slush ice, which was probably formed byphytoplankton trapped in freezing waters, marine glaciologist Jan...