Piles of snow placed on a closed runway made of ice near McMurdo Station ward off pilots if they mistakenly try to land. Strong katabatic winds from the south have built up tails on their down-wind side of the ice piles, which now, resemble a field of barchan dunes.
- Filename
- STNMTZ_20051028_RAW6536.tif
- Copyright
- © 2006 George Steinmetz
- Image Size
- 6144x4087 / 71.9MB
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- Contained in galleries
- Antarctica
