An amazing picture of snow glowing in the dark... So what's the secret?

Media published an amazing picture of glow-in-the-dark snow in a remote area near the North Pole, to show that the secret lies in the drift of small animals to this place for the first time in 80 years.

Vera Emelianenko, a microbiologist who works in a remote part of Russia, put some snow under a microscope and found that the glow was from small, bioluminescent animals called copepods.

Snow was seen glowing after these tiny sea creatures drifted ashore in the Arctic for the first time in 80 years.

According to the "Daily Star" newspaper, these creatures are usually found in the ocean at depths of up to 300 feet during the day and then only a few feet at night.

The copepods were likely caught in a strong current that brought them ashore, said Ksenia Kosopukova, an expert on marine zooplankton in the Arctic.

Copepods can actually be dead, but fireflies can still glow after they are crushed, Stephen Haddock, a biologist who studies marine plankton at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, told National Geographic. Produces light energy that looks like an amazing glow.

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