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Summary
Description Fragments of Larsen B Ice Shelf Lingered Until 2005.gif |
English:
The first image was taken one year after the disintegration. Although not frozen solid, the bay is filled with mélange and
icebergs
, some of them tens of kilometres long. A thin corridor of open
ocean
, however, lines much of the remaining
ice shelf
. In the second image,
ice
continues to fill the bay, and even more ice appears in this image than is visible in the previous shot. Lingering mélange (small chunks of
glacier
ice and
snow
, sometimes mixed with
sea ice
) and icebergs have likely been supplemented by snow and sea ice. The difference between the last image and earlier shots is dramatic. Most of the ice that had lingered in the bay after the
Larsen
B’s collapse has drifted out to sea, and open ocean predominates. Isolated chunks of ice float on the sea surface far from the remaining edge of the shelf.
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Date | |
Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
Author | Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon |
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites captured these images in the years following the collapse.
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