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What Makes Lake Superior Ice Look Blue?

By Mar 21, 2019, 08:00 am0

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In this edition of WDSE-TV‘s The Slice, Jay Austin from the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory explains why Lake Superior ice has a blue hue.

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