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Iceberg Closes In on South Georgia

Antarctic iceberg A-68A has drifted menacingly close to a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, ocean bathymetry data from the British Oceanographic Data Center’s General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), and digital elevation data from the British Antarctic Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 14, 2020
Data acquired December 14, 2020

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Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS