An ice island twice the size of Manhattan is visible breaking off a Greenland glacier this week. This is the second time in two years that this glacier has been seen to lose a massive chunk of ice. Scientists first reported this year’s calving on July 16, 2012. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the view from space, below.
Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California–Irvine said:
It is not a collapse but it is certainly a significant event.
Read more about these images from NASA’s Earth Observatory here.
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