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Antarctic Iceberg Downsizes

Iceberg A-23A continued to lose sizable pieces of ice during the 2025 austral winter, but it remained the planet’s largest freely floating berg.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Antarctic Iceberg Downsizes.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with science review by Christopher Shuman, UMBC (retired).

Published August 2, 2025
Data acquired July 22, 2025

Source:: Aqua > MODIS