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Antarctic Berg Grounded for Decades

In the span of 20 years, Iceberg B-22A has strayed just 100 kilometers from its birthplace at Thwaites Glacier.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Christopher Shuman, NASA/UMBC.

Published March 1, 2022
Data acquired March 6, 2002 - February 2, 2022

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Terra > MODIS