Sizing Up a Tabular Iceberg

The topography of Antarctic Iceberg A-76 provides insight into the strange properties of ice.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using ICESat-2 data from the National Snow & Ice Center with special thanks to Alvaro Ivanoff/ADNET Systems/NASA GSFC, and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 3, 2021
Data acquired May 17 - 18, 2021

Sources:

ICESat-2 > ATLAS

Sentinel-1A