This series of true color satellite images show the massive B-09B iceberg on a collision course with the Mertz Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica. The collision broke the ice tongue away from the glacier, creating another vast iceberg.
Acquired March 11, 2010, this true-color image shows Iceberg B-09B and an iceberg recently broken off the Mertz Glacier, as well as newly forming sea ice. Open ocean predominates on the leeward side of icebergs.
Acquired January 10, 2010, this true-color image shows an iceberg measuring roughly 8.5 by 9.5 kilometers drifting off the edge off the Mertz Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica.
Captured between early November and early December 2009, these true-color images show the changes in iceberg B17-B as it drifts northward from Antarctica toward Australia.