WebJan 10, 2024 · A British scientific base in Antarctica is on the move to a new location, to avoid being cut adrift by a crack in a floating ice shelf. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) announced on New Year's ... WebFeb 7, 2024 · A crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf that is more than 100 miles (160km) long has grown by another 6 miles (9.6km) in just over two weeks, shocking …
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WebDec 7, 2016 · A rare ice crack not formed by that squirrel from the Ice Age movies. NASA/John Sonntag. An iceberg the size of Delaware is starting to break away from … WebJul 12, 2024 · An enormous crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf that was steadily growing for months has finally given way. The event reduced the size of Larsen C by about 12 percent and dramatically changed ... puisi masa sma
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WebAs the peak of Antarctica’s melt season approaches, surface snow melting has been widespread over coastal West Antarctica, with much of the low-lying areas of the Peninsula and northern West Antarctic coastline showing 5 to 10 days more melting than average. ... where water fills pre-existing cracks in the shelf and forces the crack to open ... WebMar 5, 2024 · Very high resolution imagery has been released of the crack that resulted in the calving of Antarctica's latest mega-iceberg. A74, as the 1,290-sq-km (500-sq-mile) … WebJul 7, 2024 · Hundreds of meltwater lakes hide deep beneath the expanse of Antarctica’s ice sheet. With a powerful laser altimeter system in space, NASA’s Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is helping scientists “see” under the ice. The study, published July 7 in Geophysical Research Letters, integrates height data from ICESat-2’s ... bar alai ibarra