http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/12/15/what-created-these-bizarre-cubes-in-antarcticas-ice.htmlAntarctica isn't just a land of ice, but sometimes it appears like a land of giant ice cubes. A photo that was taken and is known as "Icy Sugar Cubes," was taken in Antarctica in 1995, over the English Coast on the southern Antarctic Peninsula.In an article The Royal Society explained in the photo, "as an ice sheet stretched in two directions over an underlying rise".However, the photo represents an area of "fast-flowing and floating ice," according to Scambosa scientist. Despite the fact that the ice might look like solid.In reality the ice is constantly moving and bumping towards other pieces of ice in which the motion causes a pattern to occur. According to Scambos the ice spreads and thins, it cracks. First, the cracks appear parallel to the ice's forward motion. By creating a series of horizontal crevasses. Which ten becomes another series of cracks appears perpendicular to the direction of the ice flow, completing the weirdly regular grid. The Artitic ice will remain a mystery in why it does that, but it's all due to mysterious forces.
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