Ice shelves in Antarctica are like conveyor belts, continually carrying ice to the sea. Scientists have found hidden canyons on their undersides that may affect the shelves fragility.
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They'll be lovely to view, and you might get a sense of the moon in its orbit around Earth, moving, always, eastward or toward the sunrise direction in your sky.
A night sky timelapse by Jack Fusco. Jack wrote, “I got to timelapse something I had never seen in the past. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the pillar in the sky!”