A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf

A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2011 - After more than two weeks 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. The flight was designed to get better measurements of the region ... more

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