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New Ice Island at Pine Island Glacier

Thermal infrared imagery spots the cracks and a new ice island through the dark of the Antarctic winter night.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, based on information from George Hale, NASA GSFC, and Elisabeth Mittelbach, German Aerospace Center.

Published July 28, 2013
Data acquired July 14, 2013

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Terra > ASTER