| Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | syzygy | 5/25/09 7:30 AM | Quote:Late in April 2009, astronauts aboard the International Space Station observed a strange circular area of thinned ice in the southern end of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. full article at NASA EO and/or check overlay attached! still do not |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Groovy23 | 5/25/09 7:38 AM | Hi syzygy, nice overlay. It is strange, perhaps, Hill has heard about the phenomena. No pressure, Hill! _________________________ Google Makes The Go Round! |
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| Strange circles in lake | ekoj0013 | 5/26/09 5:22 PM | Modis captured these image overlays.. it was originally spotted by an astronought in the ISS Here is an article talking about it. Wired Article the interesting thing is both circles are almost exactly the same size, and are pretty symetrical... se |
| Re: Strange circles in lake | syzygy | 5/27/09 1:54 AM | hi ekoj! yep! the same questions by me... why so symmetric? okay let it be symmetric but why rings and not patches? why the same diameter by above different depths...? Quote:-from the article you linked- Upwelling wouldn’t be strange in some relative |
| check GE elevation data! | syzygy | 5/27/09 2:24 AM | well i do not know yet what to do with this information but rather strange again. i have checked the elevation data of GE on the surface of the lake and have found that it is 448 m nearly on every point of the lake except the two areas in case, wher |
| Re: check GE elevation data! | njdeputter | 5/27/09 11:28 AM | Well it is Russia, and the terrain around the circles is also discolored in a perfectly circular fashion. The size and shape is about right for a large thermonuclear bomb crater but that would have annihilated all life in the lake which I think we wo |
| Re: check GE elevation data! | ekoj0013 | 5/27/09 3:03 PM | Well I just checked out our nuke testing grounds in Nevada, and the largest crater there is about 1,500 feet diameter.. these circles in the lake are 14,000 feet diameter... so if it was a nuke it left a crater 10 times larger than our largest nuke i |
| Re: check GE elevation data! | ekoj0013 | 5/27/09 3:23 PM | I also just checked bikini island... and although I cant see any craters, the areas that are marked as where the nukes went off do not make up an area even close to 14,000 feet. I guess the ocean could have washed sand up over the area where the nuke |
| Re: check GE elevation data! | Markopolo | 5/28/09 2:32 PM | Originally Posted By: njdeputterWell it is Russia, and the terrain around the circles is also discolored in a perfectly circular fashion. The size and shape is about right for a large thermonuclear bomb crater...Actually, it is not the right "size an |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | kite_surfer | 6/1/09 4:05 AM | nice post, zyggy. why should the ice break at those spots? what is the depth on those spots? are there currents in lake baikal? what is the temperature at those points? I could not find all the answers but some interesting facts below. please click |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | mspelto | 6/1/09 8:27 AM | Quite interesting. A look at the archives of Landsat 7 indicates several images for the area. For the southern site there is a 2/15 image no sign of circle, a 3/3 image it is somewhat apparent, a 4/4 image the circle is quite apparent and a 4/20 imag |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Barnstormer66 | 6/1/09 5:34 PM | Below's the take from Livescience.com and the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources as reported Today on Yahoo... ============================================================== Link to the Article>>> http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice- |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Masonicmoron | 6/2/09 1:30 AM | Thanks Barn's Another question answered best regards MM_________________________ To seek for that which was lost Traditionally a Mason wears a black tie to remember those who have gone before. ----------------------------------------------------- |
| solved (?) thanks guys! | syzygy | 6/2/09 3:29 AM | ... so we have read really great stuff about this interesting lake and learned a lot about it through this thread. We got exciting insight to huge mechanisms and probably got great explanations for this breathtaking phenomena. but can we ever be sure |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Jarvis12 | 6/6/09 5:27 AM | Thanks for providing a great stuff about lake.I have learned it through this tread. |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | onrappel | 1/1/10 3:48 PM | Ahem, I have a theory... Start with a relatively warm upwelling that thaws, thins and cracks the ice, creating a mix of ice floes and open water in a restricted area that remains surrounded by thicker ice. Add a moving air mass, probably a cyclonic |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Cintos | 1/3/10 12:09 PM | Greetings: Quite an interesting discussion! Allow me to share a few kml items I have arranged to explore the two recent holes in Lake Baikal's ice. Using images contained in a downloadable CD (see the Continent Project ), I made some overlays to e |
| Re: Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia | Markopolo | 1/3/10 3:14 PM | Originally Posted By: Cintos...The similar size of these two holes is also enigmatic, IMHO. The concept of a "nuclear" crater has been appropriately dismissed, but if I were to venture a provocative conjecture: how about two dumped nuclear rector cor |