A glacier that once moved 20 meters (65.6 feet) per year is now moving that fast every day, according to a post on a NASA-run U.S. government website. And, some estimate it could be racing even more quickly. NASA's Earth Observatory claims a cold-based glacier in the Russian High Arctic has been sliding "at a breakneck pace" since 2013 -- a phenomenon the space agency says "mystified" University of Colorado Boulder glaciologist Michael Willis.
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