Channel Beneath Pine Island Glacier

Scientists discovered a deepwater channel that could funnel warm water to the glacier's underbelly and melt it from below.

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NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, based on a model by Michael Studinger of NASA IceBridge and gravity data from Columbia University. Caption by Kathryn Hansen and Michael Carlowicz.

Published January 19, 2011
Data acquired October 16 - November 9, 2009

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