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Larsen B Embayment Breaks Up

After more than a decade fastened to the coastline, a large expanse of sea ice broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula in January 2022.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 1, 2022
Data acquired January 16 - 26, 2022

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS