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  1. Icebergs | NASA Earthdata

    6 days ago · NASA's iceberg data includes current and historical measurements useful for mapping icebergs, glaciers that calve them, and their characteristics. Icebergs are masses of ice larger than five meters that detach from a glacier and float out into a lake or the ocean.

  2. Iceberg A23a in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica - Earthdata

    Feb 27, 2024 · The animation starts with the massive iceberg (approximately 1,500 square miles in area, or about the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island) just to the right of center. During the animation (November 12, 2023, to February 27, 2024), the iceberg slowly drifts left toward the center of the image, then moves toward the top of the image.

  3. Glacier Power: What is Glacial Calving? | NASA Earthdata

    Jan 17, 2025 · The iceberg ripped a 90 meter hole (approximately the size of a football field) in the ship, causing it to sink. More than 1,500 people died in the accident. Icebergs calved from tidewater glaciers are still a danger today. An iceberg over 80 kilometers long and 40 kilometers wide recently broke off from the Larsen Sea Shelf in Antarctica.

  4. Swirling Iceberg A76A in the Drake Passage | NASA Earthdata

    Dec 4, 2022 · A76A was part of the A76 iceberg that calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in May 2021. These images were acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite ( VIIRS ), aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership ( …

  5. Iceberg B49 Calves From Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

    Feb 15, 2020 · True color corrected reflectance image of iceberg B49, which calved from the Pine Island Glacier, acquired on 15 February 2020 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite. View an animation of the iceberg moving away from the Pine Island Glacier from 8 - 15 February 2020.

  6. icebergs | NASA Earthdata

    Platforms. NASA operates state-of-the-art platforms that collect critical information about our home planet. Drill down to the data and tools you need by exploring platforms on Earth and in the

  7. Disintegration of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue | NASA Earthdata

    Jul 21, 2020 · The resultant iceberg (sections A and B) has an area of approximately 900 square kilometers (560 square miles). NOTE: Purple dots indicate the area where the iceberg broke away from the glacier. According to Massom, large-scale breakouts of …

  8. Iceberg A68A Moving Away From The Antarctic Peninsula

    True-color image of Iceberg A68A moving away from the Antarctic Peninsula, acquired on 11 January 2020 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Instrument, aboard the Terra satellite. Iceberg A68A calved from the Larsen C Shelf in July 2017 and is likely now headed for the South Atlantic Ocean.

  9. After the Larsen B | NASA Earthdata

    Dec 27, 2020 · MacAyeal and his colleagues discovered the effect of these waves after an iceberg they were studying, named B-15A, abruptly shattered on October 27, 2005. B-15A was a large iceberg, about the size of Luxembourg, which had run aground off of the coast of Antarctica. It broke up on a calm day with locally mild weather, puzzling observers.

  10. Tracking the Itinerant | NASA Earthdata

    Dec 28, 2020 · Iceberg B-15A floats in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Iceberg B-15A is a fragment of the much larger iceberg (B-15) that broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. (Courtesy J. Landis, National Science Foundation)