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Amery Ice Shelf

Rifts form a triple junction along the edge of a giant loose tooth in East Antarctica.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott, with information from Helen A. Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Published February 12, 2012
Data acquired January 27, 2012

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EO-1 > ALI