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Saltiest Pond on Earth

Despite frigid temperatures, Antarctica’s Don Juan Pond rarely freezes.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to Dan Mahr, Lee Saper, and Edwin Clatworthy for being some of our first readers to answer the December 2014 puzzler correctly.

Published December 28, 2014
Data acquired January 3, 2014

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