NASA has spent the past decade flying over the Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions in an attempt to understand the connections between the world's climate systems, and to look at global warming's impact on some of the coldest places on Earth.
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Somewhere in the Arctic sea ice, where the temperatures are typically below freezing on even the balmiest days, there is a random pattern of holes, and NASA - the literal rocket scientists who took us to the moon and want to take us to Mars - can't figure out what they are.
NASA has spent the past decade flying over the Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions in an attempt to understand the connections between the world's climate systems, and to look at global warming's impact on some of the coldest places on Earth.
The missions have a name straight out of a James Bond novel: Operation IceBridge.
It's an intensive, six-month survey over two hemispheres that uses "the most sophisticated suite of innovative science instruments ever assembled," including laser altimeters, plane-based lidar and NASA satellites.
"We saw these sorta-circular features only for a few minutes today," IceBridge mission scientist John Sonntag, the man who snapped the photo, wrote from the field. "I don't recall seeing this sort of thing elsewhere."
The sort of things he saw were three amoeba-shaped holes in a vast, unbroken sheet of thin ice.