Over the course of five months in Antarctic spring and summer, NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites captured a series of images of ice island B31.
Image of the Day Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Thermal infrared imagery shows the ice island—which calved off of Pine Island Glacier—after winter darkness has set in.
Water Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Thermal infrared imagery spots the cracks and a new ice island through the dark of the Antarctic winter night.
In just a month, a large iceberg from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier has disintegrated.
Calving that used to happen about every six years has become a near-annual event.
Image of the Day Snow and Ice Remote Sensing Sea and Lake Ice
The 185-square-kilometer hunk of ice is afloat in the Amundsen Sea, off the coast of West Antarctica.
Image of the Day Water Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
The floating part of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier released a new, 185-square-kilometer iceberg.
Land Water Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Iceberg B-49 calved from the Antarctic glacier in February 2020.
In a routine survey of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, NASA scientists discovered a large crack in the ice which will soon lead to the birth of a new giant iceberg.
As spring clears out sea ice from Pine Island Bay, the birth of a massive new iceberg may be more likely.
Images from the German satellite TerraSar-X shows how a rift on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier grew between October 2011 and September 2012.
Pine Island Glacier has shed another block of ice into Antarctic waters.
The rift in the glacier is now completely open, and a large iceberg is moving out into Pine Island Bay.
Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
Acquired September 13, 2012, this natural-color image shows the fragmented ice island, PII-2012, in Nares Strait.
Image of the Day Water Snow and Ice
Image of the Day Land Water Sea and Lake Ice
Scientists merged photographs and laser altimetry data to create a virtual journey through the crack in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.
In April 2005, the A53a iceberg calved off the Larsen Ice Shelf and began drifting north. Nearly three years later, it began to disintegrate.
Image of the Day Land Water Snow and Ice