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.

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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

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Aqua > MODIS