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Birth of an Iceberg

By on April 2, 2012 in Big Kids, Grography

Images taken by the Envisat satellite show a massive iceberg breaking off the Petermann glacier in Greenland to become the largest iceberg in the northern hemisphere. The break occurred in August 2010. The animated image below shows the break occurring over several days.

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Time lapse ice formation

Ice Crystal Time Lapse

By on March 26, 2012 in Big Kids, Chemistry, Little Kids, Toddler

This amazing time lapse video was captured from multiple exposures over entire days on freezing and melting rivers in Colorado. The video is by Daniel Kelly Brown on Vimeo.

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Underwater Ice Fishing

By on January 2, 2012 in Big Kids, Science

This is an interesting video filmed in lake Saarijärvi in Vaala, Finland. If you didn’t figure it out by the end of the video, the divers are upside down. That’s why the air from their SCUBA masks is going down instead of up. They are held up against the bottom surface of the ice by [...]

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