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In October 2011, when flying over the ice shelf Pine Island glacier offshore Amudsen’s coast Antarctica scientists discovered a giant glacial crack “language”. Its dimensions are staggering – 29 kilometers in length, about 80 meters wide and 50 to 60 meters deep. When this the gap will reach the opposite side of the ice shelf, a new a huge iceberg will set sail on Pine Island and the sea Amudsen. NASA researchers have been watching this for about a year a phenomenon at a distance using a special highly sensitive equipment. Satellite image of the crack obtained 26 October of this year from the Landsat 7 satellite, it shows that now the crack ends just a few kilometers from the opposite side of the “tongue” of the Pine Island Glacier. Scientists also noticed that the anthracic spring (summer in Antarctica coincides with winter in the Northern Hemisphere) cleared the edge of the Pine Island Glacier from drifting sea ice. His absence may speed birth giant iceberg.
NASA Icebergs Antarctica
