Watch a 20-Mile Long Iceberg Drift Into the Southern Ocean
 

Watch a 20-Mile Long Iceberg Drift Into the Southern Ocean
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Ever since a massive ***** was discovered in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier in 2011, NASA researchers and other scientists have kept a close watch on this area. The ***** cleaved off an iceberg, **w k**wn as "Ice Island B31," which broke off from the glacier in **vember 2013, and has since been drifting across Pine Island Bay, a basin of the Amundsen Sea, toward the Southern Ocean.

According to the NASA's Earth Observatory, the ice island "will likely be swept up soon in the swift currents of the Southern Ocean..."

See also: West Antarctic Glaciers Speeding Toward the Sea, Study Finds


During the five-month-long Antarctic spring and summer, an instrument called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites captured a ****** of images showing the movement if the ice island. NASA recently released a time-lapse video of these images, showing the journey of this massive chunk of ice: Read more...

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