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Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica

The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 29, 2022
Data acquired January 9 - March 23, 2022

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS