Saturday, 6. March 2010
Topic: NATURE - on March 6, 2010 at 1:59:00 PM CET
Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space
The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images.
The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, named C-28. The name means that it’s the 28th glacier since 1976 that has broken off from the quadrant of Antarctica that faces Australia.
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