<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2da2bcba-ad2e-4718-8ef8-19f79711adfe/7B91614B-B059-43B7-80FC-6AA42537FEE3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=strangenews&c=news&l=&pic=090601-ice-circle-02.jpg&cap=Late+in+April+2009%2C+astronauts+aboard+the+International+Space+Station+observed+a+strange+circular+area+of+thinned+ice+in+the+southern+end+of+Lake+Baikal+in+southern+Siberia.+The+ice+ring+had+a+diameter+of+2.7+miles+%284.4+km%29.+Credit%3A+NASA&title=" href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=strangenews&c=news&l=&pic=090601-ice-circle-02.jpg&cap=Late+in+April+2009%2C+astronauts+aboard+the+International+Space+Station+observed+a+strange+circular+area+of+thinned+ice+in+the+southern+end+of+Lake+Baikal+in+southern+Siberia.+The+ice+ring+had+a+diameter+of+2.7+miles+%284.4+km%29.+Credit%3A+NASA&title=" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=strangenews&c=news&l=&pic=090601-ice-circle-02.jpg&cap=Late+in+April+2009%2C+astronauts+aboard+the+International+Space+Station+observed+a+strange+circular+area+of+thinned+ice+in+the+southern+end+of+Lake+Baikal+in+southern+Siberia.+The+ice+ring+had+a+diameter+of+2.7+miles+%284.4+km%29.+Credit%3A+NASA&title="><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/D5048E2F-E85B-47D1-BBC0-01069A9A7710" alt="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. The ice ring had a diameter of 2.7 miles (4.4 km). Credit: NASA" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html"><DIV id="ri_caption">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. The ice ring had a diameter of 2.7 miles (4.4 km). Credit: NASA</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html">Methane emissions can create a rising mass of warm water that begins swirling in a <A href="http://www.livescience.com/images/090601-ice-circle-02.jpg">circular pattern</A> because of the Coriolis force, or the phenomenon caused by the Earth's rotation that also helps create cyclones. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html">Once the water mass reaches the underside of the ice on the surface of the lake, the warm water melts the ice in a ring shape,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html"><P class="MsoNormal"> The latest ring patterns included a circle of thin ice with a diameter of 2.7 miles (4.4 km), although the circular patch was becoming a hole of open water. Astronauts spotted similar ice circles in both 1985 and 1994, and satellites have also made sightings over the past years. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html">This phenomenon is nothing new to the Russian government, which has documented circle sightings on an official Ministry of Natural Resources Web</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7B91614B-B059-43B7-80FC-6AA42537FEE3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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