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.
Published Feb 27, 2010
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.
Published Mar 11, 2010
Icebergs and sea ice floated along Antarctica’s Mawson Coast in March 2013.
Published Mar 24, 2013
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.
Published Jan 17, 2010
Scientists rely on satellites to piece together the life stories of icebergs from Antarctica, some of which have been adrift for decades.
Published Oct 27, 2017
Acquired on November 25, 2011, this natural-color image shows two icebergs in the southern Pacific Ocean: B-15J and newly formed B-15Y.
Published Nov 30, 2011
After 15 years, a fragment of a huge iceberg still floats off the coast of Antarctica.
Published Apr 12, 2015
In early 2015, a new berg broke free from the Getz Ice Shelf.
Published Apr 21, 2015
Landsat 8 captures a view of the ice separating from the ice shelf.
Published Nov 15, 2013
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
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.
Published Dec 19, 2009
Acquired December 13, 2010, this natural-color image shows smooth- and rough-surfaced icebergs casting long shadows along the Antarctic coast.
Published Jan 2, 2011
In April 2005, the A53a iceberg calved off the Larsen Ice Shelf and began drifting north. Nearly three years later, it began to disintegrate.
Published Mar 20, 2008
B-15J, a long-lived Antarctic iceberg, broke into small pieces in early December 2011, after drifting into warmer waters.
Published Dec 7, 2011
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