A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 01:11:07 PM | John Entwistle | 0 Comments |

A crack runs across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, seen from NASA's DC-8 on Oct. 14, 2011

After a series 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.

For more information about this fascinating discovery, read the mission's blog post.

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