LARSEN ICE SHELF, Antarctica — NASA cameras recently caught an unusual rectangular iceberg floating off the Larsen-C ice shelf in Antarctica. Pictures of the iceberg have gone viral on social media sites.
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf. pic.twitter.com/XhgTrf642Z
— NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) October 17, 2018
According to scientists, the iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface are an indication that it had probably recently broken off the ice shelf.
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The image was captured on NASA's Icebridge Flight, an airborne survey of the earth's polar ice yielding three-dimensional detailed views of ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
The flights are conducted over Greenland from March to May and over Antarctica in October to November.
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