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In August 2016, an iceberg heaved away from the Porcupine Glacier in northern British Columbia. It could be the biggest calving event in North America since satellite observations began.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Pola Lem, based on AGU news sources.

Published October 12, 2016
Data acquired August 27, 2016

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI