(NASA/Nathan Kurtz)NASA scientists have captured close-up images of a behemoth iceberg that in July detached from one of the largest floating ice shelves in Antarctica. Satellite images in July first showed the 2,200-square-mile iceberg calving and floating away from the Larsen C ice shelf. Kurtz said the detachment does, however, put the destabilization of the larger Larsen C ice shelf into question. Almost twice the size of this iceberg, it broke off the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s largest floating ice body. The Larsen C ice shelf lost a bigger piece in 1986, Scambos said, but that occurred under different circumstances.

Source: Washington Post November 15, 2017 07:29 UTC