Suncup (snow)
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suncup-snow-288-1264894
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Suncup (snow)
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Suncups are bowl-shaped open depressions into a snow surface, normally wider than they are deep. They form closely packed, honeycomb, often hexagonal patterns with sharp narrow ridges separating smoothly concave hollows. For a given set of suncups, the hollows are normally all around the same size, meaning that the pattern is quasi-periodic on 20–80 cm scales. The depressions are typically 2–50 cm deep. Suncups form during the ablation of snowy surfaces. It is thought they can form in a number o
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Bowl-shaped open depressions into a snow surface
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncup_(snow)
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2022-09-28T01:30:47Z
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