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Birth of an Iceberg

In a routine survey of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, NASA scientists discovered a large crack in the ice which will soon lead to the birth of a new giant iceberg.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Birth of an Iceberg.

NASA images courtesy Digital Mapping System team and Michael Studinger. Caption by Holli Riebeek and Patrick Lynch.

Published November 3, 2011
Data acquired October 26, 2011

Sources:: Aircraft Sensors > DMS; Photograph