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St. Louis Has Nothing on This Arch

Fogbows usually appear in the Arctic Ocean whenever overcast skies clear, as water droplets in the fog reflect and refract the beams of sunlight. The bow of the Swedish icebreaker Oden appears to be headed right underneath this one. Researchers from WHOI and six other institutions have been exploring the Arctic seafloor for the past month a journey that they will describe in a telephone call today to a museum in Boston. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)