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Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83

The Brunt Ice Shelf lost a large wedge of floating ice, the third sizeable iceberg to calve from the shelf in recent years.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Christopher Shuman, NASA/UMBC.

Published May 23, 2024
Data acquired May 20 - 22, 2024

Sources:: Landsat 9 > TIRS-2; Map