Acquired with 23 hours on July 16-17, 2012, these three images track the calving of a new iceberg off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier.
Published Jul 18, 2012
Acquired July 22, 2010, this high-resolution image shows cracks on the surface of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.
Published Aug 11, 2010
The amount of ice flowing from the Antarctic glacier has doubled in the span of three decades, and scientists think it could undergo even more dramatic changes in the near future.
Published Feb 6, 2020
Acquired in 2001 and 2010, these natural-color images show substantial retreat in the Jakobshavn Glacier.
Published Jul 15, 2010
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the rift on the Petermann Glacier on September 7, 2008. The rift, which appeared by 2001, is filled with thin ice and covered with snow.
Published Sep 12, 2008
Glaciologists are watching a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwest Greenland.
Published Apr 19, 2017
In August 2010, a NASA satellite tracked the chunk of ice as it slowly migrated down the fjord.
Published Aug 22, 2010
Acquired September 13, 2012, this natural-color image shows the fragmented ice island, PII-2012, in Nares Strait.
Published Sep 17, 2012
In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
Published Oct 1, 2020
Acquired September 6, 2010, this natural-color image shows chunks of ice breaking off Matusevich Glacier along the coast of Antarctica.
Published Nov 7, 2010
Acquired July 20, 2011, this natural-color image shows a remnant of an ice island that broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier off the coast of Labrador.
Published Jul 22, 2011
The heavily crevassed terminus of Kong Oscar Glacier in northwestern Greenland crumbles into a mélange of icebergs in the Davis Strait.
Published Aug 25, 2010
