Giant iceberg scrapes past Antarctica’s fragile Brunt Ice Shelf0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- September 9, 2021
A full-on impact by this giant likely would have broken the already unstable ice shelf.
A full-on impact by this giant likely would have broken the already unstable ice shelf.
Earlier this month, NASA published a strange and entrancing photo of a ridiculously square iceberg. And NASA scientist Kelly Brunt speculated to Live Science that the berg was likely pretty fresh, its sharp corners the result of recently snapping off of an ice shelf and not having yet been battered much by the elements.
A new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where ice from the interior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean.