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Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea, Antarctica

Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf roughly straddles the 180-degree-longitude line. In recent years large icebergs have been calving off the margin of the shelf, which is a large sheet of ice that hangs out over the continental land mass and floats in the Southern Ocean. This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite on December 13, 2002.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published December 30, 2002
Data acquired December 13 - 13, 2002

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topics:
Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Icebergs
Oceans > Sea Ice > Icebergs
Collections:
MODIS Rapid Response
Visible Earth