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Thursday, November 10, 2011

NASA spots a New York City-sized iceberg as it breaks off Antarctic glacier



NASA spots a New York City-sized iceberg as it breaks off Antarctic glacier
By Andrew Freedman

NASA researchers flying low over Antarctica’s vast, frozen landscape recently stumbled across a rare event in progress: the calving of a massive iceberg from one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest-moving glaciers. The scientists, who were taking part in NASA’s “Operation IceBridge,” were able to fly a follow-up mission above the Pine Island Glacierto gather unprecedented airborne measurements of an ongoing iceberg calving event. Typically, scientists can only learn of such events after they take place. READ MORE

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