Thursday, October 1, 2015

We've Solved the Longstanding Mystery of These Spiky Ice Pillars  

Penitentes are nature’s ice sculptures: snowy pillars that form high in the Andean glaciers, where the air is particularly dry. Now physicists have figured out not only how these pillars form, but also why they tend to form at preferred spacings between columns.

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