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Collision Calves Iceberg from Mertz Glacier Tongue, Antarctica

This series of true color satellite images show the massive B-09B iceberg on a collision course with the Mertz Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica. The collision broke the ice tongue away from the glacier, creating another vast iceberg.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Collision Calves Iceberg from Mertz Glacier Tongue, Antarctica.

NASA images by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek

Published February 27, 2010
Data acquired February 7 - 26, 2010

Source:: Aqua > MODIS