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Feb 21, 2017 · On Tuesday, researchers with the British Antarctic Survey released new aerial footage showing the widening rift that threatens to tear the ice shelf asunder at any moment. The footage makes...
A Growing Rift in Antarctic Ice. Images from the German satellite TerraSar-X shows how a rift on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier grew between October 2011 and September 2012. NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data from the German Aerospace Center.
Dec 13, 2016 · In late August 2016, sunlight returned to the Antarctic Peninsula and unveiled a rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf that had grown longer and deeper over the austral winter. Satellites spotted it in natural-color imagery. By November, the arrival of longer days and favorable weather made it possible for scientists to take a closer look.
Oct 31, 2011 · The rift was 80 meters (260 feet) wide on average, and 50 to 60 meters (170 to 200 feet) deep. When the crack reaches the other side of the ice shelf, it will send a huge new iceberg drifting into Pine Island Bay. Since discovering it, researchers have monitored the rift closely with remote sensing equipment.
Feb 19, 2019 · January 23, 2019. The detailed view shows this northward expanding rift coming within a few kilometers of the McDonald Ice Rumples and the Halloween crack. When it cuts all the way across, the area of ice lost from the shelf will likely be at least 1700 square kilometers (660 square miles).
Sep 8, 2016 · In August 2016, the return of sunlight on the Antarctic Peninsula meant that the landscape became visible again in natural-color satellite imagery. That’s when scientists saw something interesting: a rift along Larsen C—the continent’s fourth-largest ice shelf —has grown considerably longer.
Jun 30, 2017 · For about three years now, scientists have been monitoring a rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, and today Project MIDAS, which has been closely tracking the rift’s progress via...