Great picture! I have used it to illustrate a news paper article describing our laboratory based research focusing on chemistry in snow (http://webpaper.nzz.ch/2013/03/06/forschung-und-technik/K4GWO/wie-funktioniert-die-chemie-im-schnee).

This morning we discussed the image during coffee break. Do you remember how wide that stream/deep that stream is?

Melt Stream, Greenland

by Ian Joughin, Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

A large meandering melt stream feeding the a large supraglacial lake in Greenland eroded this feature.

Taken on 4 July 2010
Submitted on 1 Mar 2012

3809 × 2530 px; image/jpeg; 7.2 MB
Camera: Nikon D90

Credit: Ian Joughin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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