Image: NASA Earth Observatory

The Changing Face of Antarctica's Skull-Shaped Vega Island

Vega Island is located in the Weddell Sea east of the Antarctic Peninsula. Its ice, rocks and moraines look like a skull that faces Devil Island. Moraines are piles of rock and dirt that moving glaciers leave behind. A nunatak is a rocky peak that sticks up through glacier ice. It forms an eye socket. A side moraine looks like…

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