You Won't Believe These Astounding Nature Photos Are Real

Blue Ice

It may look like this bizarre structure was photoshopped, but it is a real natural phenomenon known as blue ice. Blue ice occurs when falling snow becomes packed so tightly on a glacier that it becomes part of the glacier. Ice absorbs lower light frequencies like red, orange, yellow, and green, while reflecting higher ones like blue and violet, causing a bluish hue.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.