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Rapid Sea Ice Breakup along the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf

An area of sea ice larger than the state of Rhode Island can be seen breaking from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf in this series of photo-like images.


NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 15, 2010
Data acquired January 12, 2010

Source:
Aqua > MODIS