Vast Antarctic Ice Shelf on Verge of Collapse | LiveScience
- Mar 28, 2008 at 4:34 PM
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An image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration taken from the British Antarctic Survey's Twin Otter aircraft reconnaissance flight. Credit: Jim Elliott, British Antarctic SurveyAs of March 8, about 220 square miles (570 square kilometers) of ice has disintegrated from the ice shelf. Credit: Jim Elliott, British Antarctic SurveyA map of the Antarctic Peninsula with the location of the the Wilkins Ice Sheet, which is on the southern portion of the peninsula. Credit: British Antarctic SurveyDuring the break-up, the Wilkins Ice Shelf broke into a sky-blue pattern of exposed deep glacial ice. This true-color image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf was taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on March 6, 2008. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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