Earth  ID: 13110

NASA's View of Pine Island Glacier's Latest Iceberg

Released on November 8, 2018
Last week, Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier calved a massive iceberg, known as Iceberg B-46, into the Amundsen Sea. Pine Island has lost several large icebergs in the last few years -- it's one of the most rapidly melting glaciers in the Antarctic and a significant contributor to sea level rise.

NASA's Operation IceBridge flew over Pine Island Glacier on Nov. 7, capturing images and collecting data over the newly formed iceberg and remaining glacier.

Read more about the new iceberg.

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A sheer wall of the new iceberg B-46 looms over a mix of sea ice, bergy bit and snow at the base of Pine Island Glacier, as seen from a NASA Operation IceBridge flight on Nov. 7 (Credit: NASA/Kate Ramsayer)
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The rift separating Pine Island Glacier and a new iceberg about triple the size of Manhattan. (Credit: NASA/Kate Ramsayer)
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New sea ice forms near a crack in a small iceberg that broke off from pine island glacier. (NASA/Kate Ramsayer)

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Kathryn Mersmann (USRA): Lead Producer
Kate Ramsayer (Telophase): Lead Videographer
Kate Ramsayer (Telophase): Lead Writer
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Keywords:
SVS >> Pine Island Glacier
GCMD >> Location >> Antarctica
SVS >> Operation IceBridge
NASA Science >> Earth
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Terrestrial Hydrosphere >> Glaciers/ice Sheets >> Glacier Mass Balance/ice Sheet Mass Balance

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0