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		glxybstr on Dec 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Lies Below at the South Pole those transantarctic mountains have very jagged peaks - is this a result of less wind exposure, and therefore less erosion? the article also mentions that the horizontal scale is different from the vertical scale, so it might just be that.

zrail on Dec 23, 2014 [–]

The scale is extremely compressed on the horizontal. If they were scaled the same, the image would be about 150 times wider than it is.

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