NASA photos capture a strange new ***** in a massive Greenland glacier and we're all
 

NASA photos capture a strange new ***** in a massive Greenland glacier and we're all probably doomed
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A mysterious ***** has been spreading across a giant Greenland glacier, and it's raising concerns that part of the floating ice shelf could splinter off into the ocean.*

That's bad.*

Scientists with the NASA field campaign Operation IceBridge recently captured the first photographs of the growing rift while flying over Petermann Glacier, a structure that connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean.

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SEE ALSO: NASA photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf


The new chasm appears in the center of the glacier's floating ice shelf — the tongue of ice that extends into the water from the grounded glacier on land.* Read more...

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