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Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg

Scientists recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Braakmann-Folgmann, A. et al. (2022) and the The Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database at Brigham Young University. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 25, 2022
Data acquired 2017 - 2021

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; CryoSat-2; ICESat-2 > ATLAS; Map; Model; Sentinel-1A; Sentinel-1B; Terra > MODIS