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What's in the photo? A ghostly-looking indentation in the snowScientists were shocked when they discovered a large, ghostly figure that suddenly appeared in satellite images of Greenland 13 years ago. The icy apparition was created by a depression in the snow-covered surface, which formed when an underground lake located directly beneath the figure collapsed.
The spooky structure, which researchers also referred to as"the mitten" due to its glove-like shape, formed at some point between Aug. 16 and Sept. 6, 2011, when the area was obscured by cloud cover in satellite photos. This event was"perhaps the first recorded instance of a rapid drainage of a subglacial lake in Greenland," Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist at NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory who was not involved in the study, told NASA's Earth Observatory in 2015. The majority of similar submerged lakes in the country are considered to be very stable, she added.
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