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A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf … a floating 300 square mile ice monster
Friday, November 4, 2011 23:27
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A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf
HERE Posted on Oct 26, 2011
After more than two weeks of successful flights over Antarctica and its surrounding waters and sea ice, one of the more interesting things NASA’s Operation IceBridge team has seen this year is a large crack running across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier. The team observed the crack on the DC-8′s Oct. 14 flight. The flight was designed to get better measurements of the region around the ice shelf’s grounding line — where the shelf meets the landmass under the water. It was also flown to collect data along lines that a ground-based expedition will traverse in the coming months.
Pine Island is one of the;
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