Located near the Markha River in Arctic Siberia, the ripples formed near the banks alternate between dark and light stripes.
The space agency NASA, on their website at the Earth Observatory, recently shared some images of a phenomenon that surprised scientists.
The images, taken with a Landsar-8 satellite over several years, were recently shared with the NASA space agency on the Earth Observatory website.
The photos show a view of a strange landscape in the cold depths of Siberian Arctic Russia, near the Markha River with wide ripples.
Located near the Markha River in Arctic Siberia, the ripples formed near the banks alternate between dark and light stripes.
However, the space agency is not sure what will cause the pattern on Siberian soil.
The ripple formed around the river is visible in all seasons, but becomes more pronounced during winter days as the snow makes the pattern more visible.
One explanation given by the space agency was related to the frigid temperature of the region.
The other explanation is that group enterprises erode surface.
Geologist Thomas Crafford, with a U.S. geological survey, told NASA that the strips resemble a pattern in sedimentary rock called cover cake geology, which occurs when snow or melting water runs down the hill, sloping away and dripping pieces of sedimentary rock into hills. The resulting sedimentary slabs look very much like slices of coated cake.