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Last Call for Larsen B

The remnant of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is flowing faster, becoming increasingly fragmented, and developing large cracks.


NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, based on a paper by Khazendar et al. (2015). Caption by Carol Rasmussen, NASA JPL, and adapted for NASA Earth Observatory by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 9, 2015
Data acquired 2000 - 2010

Sources:
ALOS > PALSAR
Landsat 8 > OLI
RADARSAT > SAR
TANDEM-X