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A 3D synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) view of iceberg A68a and its offspring on January 5, 2021, with South Georgia island in the background. Image: Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Antonio Vecoli A68a ...
The European Space Agency says the iceberg, called A68a, is on course to collide with the island after years of floating towards it due to ocean currents. A68a is currently less than 100 miles off ...
A 3D rendering of the most recent Sentinel-1 image showing multiple icebergs produced from the continued break-up of iceberg A68a. Image: Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Antonio Vecoli The latest satellite ...
By Henry Fountain Perhaps you remember iceberg A68a, which enjoyed a few minutes of fame back in 2017 when it broke off an ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Hardly your everyday iceberg ...
When the massive A68A iceberg snapped off its ice shelf in July 2017, it was the sixth-largest iceberg on record. Now more than half of it is gone. A study published on January 10 in the journal ...
Britain's Royal Air Force has obtained images of what is considered the largest iceberg as it veers toward the island territory of South Georgia. Pictures of A68a were released Friday following a ...
In July 2017, the A68A iceberg snapped off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula and began its epic 3.5 year, 4000 km journey across the Southern Ocean. At 5719 square kilometres in ...
Satellite images shows A68a heading towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Credit: MODIS from NASA Worldview Snapshots Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal ...
Fractures in an Antarctic iceberg were likely caused by rapid changes in the currents that flow through the Southern Ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Robotic gliders will be used to gather measurements under and around the iceberg A team of scientists is being sent to the South Atlantic to study the giant iceberg A68a. The 3,900-sq-km behemoth ...
Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Satellites ...