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NASA Images Reveal Strange 'Sea Smoke' Rising From Vital Antarctic Glacier

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NASA 's Landsat 8 satellite captured an extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon above Antarctica 's Pine Island Glacier .

Images show ghostly plumes of "sea smoke" rising from one of the continent's most crucial and vulnerable ice masses.

Snow streams whipped up by powerful katabatic winds racing from Antarctica 's interior toward the coast.