A photo from open sources On the Pine Island ice shelf to one another one was added to the crack. A huge iceberg is ready to break away Antarctica. Crack that formed on the ice shelf Pine Island is growing rapidly. Now its length is about 30 km, width reaches 243 m, and the depth in some places – 55 meters. PHOTO: NASA Recently Using a German Satellite TerraSAR-X on the surface of Pine Island discovered a new fault. NASA experts who closely monitor the behavior of the glacier, argue that this is a normal process, but it is necessary control. According to ABCNews, when the ice breaks, the resulting iceberg will be the size of a New York city. Photo, made by the NASA research aircraft in November 2011 and published in February of this year show how fast it is growing crack. Then its length was 28 kilometers. Pine Island is a huge glacier, with a total length of about 50 km, stretching from the foot of the Hudson Mountains to the Amundsen Sea, recalls the Daily Mail. is he is part of the ice sheet of West Antarctica, from which In 2001, a rather large iceberg had already split off. Before the fall last year, a NASA plane flew over the ice shelf, no one there was evidence that it was starting to break up. Pine island attracts scientists by instability as much as size. It is called the largest source of uncertainty in predicting sea level rise.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
Anna BOLSHAKOVA
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