Video of Shocking Ice Phenomenon Watched by Over 9 Million [Video]

A video capturing an otherworldly view of ice ripples in winter has mesmerized viewers on TikTok.

The clip was shared by @yoshi_bell and has amassed 9.5 million views since it was first posted on January 3. A caption shared with the video says: “My favorite part of winter, frozen ice ripples.”

The video shows waves formed by frozen water ripples against a mountain backdrop under a bright blue sky. Some closer shots of the ice show air bubbles frozen beneath the surface.

“Normally, freezing is a slow enough process that transient phenomena like ripples get smoothed out. But with the right conditions, even ripples can get frozen in time,” Nicole Sharp, a science communicator and aerospace engineer in Denver, Colorado, explains in an October 2023 blog post on her website about frozen ripples.

Ripples are “a banded pattern of wavelike disturbances” that usually occur in fluids but can also occur in solids, according to a Universities …