Photo of the Week

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Glacial Blues

September 21, 2020

TAS ’18 Cindy Byers took this photo of blue glacial ice floating in Endicott Arm, Alaska.

Photo: Cindy Byers

The front of a glacier will calve or break off. The big pieces of ice that we saw in the water was caused by calving of the glacier. What is also very interesting about this ice is that it looks blue. White light, of course, has different wavelengths. The red wavelengths are longer and are absorbed by the ice. The blue waves are shorter and are scattered. This light does not get far into the ice and is scattered back to your eyes. This is why it looks blue.

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