Happy Saint Paddy's Day?! Algae turns Antarctic ice green

• Main Author: Lieser, JL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: sputniknews.com 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Granite Harbor; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115321

Luck of the Irish? NASAs Operational Land Imager (OLI) has releasedphotos of a huge patch of Antarctic ice that has turned a spectral shade ofgreen.The colorful ice is located at Granite Harbor in southern Antarctica, and spans a 16-mile(26 km) stretch. The pale green hue comes from wisps of algae t...