What happened here? Antarctica NASA Photo

Emergency landing? Crash?

Shows up in image numbers ISS061-E- 27623 through 27669


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Date taken 2019.11.03

Another uncataloged image didnt know where to post this at so im posting it here.






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a reply to: VeilOfShadows

Superman's 'cloaked' fortress of solitude?

The direction of movement is from large to small, according to the side waves.
It may be geologic, an opening under ice/ground fissure.

That must be a thin layer of ice/snow on top of water.

A whale (or something big) is swimming in a straight line, just under the surface.

a reply to: VeilOfShadows

Look's to be a protrusion that rising above the ice has had the prevailing wind blown snow build up in two row's of dune's, like a snow ball affect these dune's have themselves added to the affect over time creating this wedge shaped snow formation, it may be the peak of a mountain or just a rock of even just a jagged ice peak that started this but it grew over time.

But without going there or using radar to see the topography beneath the ice in that location it will have to remain conjecture.

Interesting shot though, for myself I believe Antarctica is a very mysterious place with a great many thing's to be discovered.

The other possibility and it is very possible is that something crashed down there at an oblique angle, perhaps a lump of meteor sufficient to create the impact but that then over time it was covered by wind blown snow but the formation in the underlying ice and has given rise to this surface feature, it would if that is the case potentially be a very large and valuable meteoric rock.

originally posted by: charlyv
The direction of movement is from large to small, according to the side waves.
It may be geologic, an opening under ice/ground fissure.

My thoughts as well
A fissure opening up.

originally posted by: carewemust
That must be a thin layer of ice/snow on top of water.

A whale (or something big) is swimming in a straight line, just under the surface.

That is a good observation as well. If it is indeed light snow/ice on water, a submarine is not out of the question either.

Drifting snow.

Wind deposits the snow in a wave pattern behind an object like the wake of a boat. Making it look like something moving. I see this all the time out here in Colorado, just not to that scale.

Could it be the whole snow field sliding past a tree stump?

A bulldozer that was abandoned....no, a snowcat....

Is that a slope? Not much of one huh!a reply to: JAY1980

From a satellite so I say mountain top in the clouds.

a reply to: mikell

Oh well said, you may be correct, we are all assuming it is snow but it could very well be cloud layers though it does look like snow, then again it could be cloud's.

Glacier moving over a topo feature.

Yes it's a mountaintop in the clouds

a reply to: VeilOfShadows

Why was the picture taken? Is it a deliberate picture or just
something noted in a satellite photo?

That’s from space, so that’s HUGE

It looks like a thin cloud bank over the ice

But the effect is more like a submarine or large fishhas submerged into still calm waters

So that’s, umm, a rather interesting image indeed

Or if that’s snow we’re looking at, then there is some sort of structure raising from the ground causing snow huge drifts, which is completely out of place with such a landscape, it’s huge either way

originally posted by: mikell
From a satellite so I say mountain top in the clouds.

My first thought, too, was clouds. It looks to me as if they are a very dense (cold) cloud layer of a massive front moving over something like you suggest. A mountain peak.

I have to agree those are clouds. Imagine the size those snow drifts would have to be in order to be noticed from space, they would have to be the size of mountains.

I've seen this before.

The second image gives a little more reference detail. It appears to be something large subsurface under the ice/snow covering the water.
If a fissure it would seem to show more areas were the snow sediment fell. If a impact no debris visible.
Possible advanced submarine or Ningen 😉 cruising/swimming...
Nice share 👍

a reply to: VeilOfShadows

It looks a bow wave, and if you imgine the snow, blown by the wind, represents water, being broken up by the bow of a ship, it will cause the same pattern in the snow as it would in water, only more gradual. In this case the “ship” stands still and the water (snow, ice crystals) moves around it, broken up by the bow of the ship.

I hope I managed to convey my analogy properly for you to understand what I’m babling about.

Bow wave Example