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Greenland Glacier Calves Another Huge Ice Island

July 24, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Petermann glacier, a 70 km (43 mile) long tongue of ice that flows into the Arctic Ocean in northwest Greenland, recently calved an “ice island” approximately 130 square kilometers (50 sq. miles) — about twice the area of Manhattan. The image [...]

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Scientists Set Their Sights on Arctic Ice Loss

May 3, 2012

NASA researchers have just completed science mission flights over Greenland and the surrounding seas, gathering data on ice distribution and thickness with the MABEL (Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar) laser altimeter instrument mounted in the nose of an ER-2 aircraft. WIth MABEL’s unprecedented ability to detect individual photons, researchers will be able to even more accurately [...]

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Iceberg Pictures

May 26, 2010

Here are some amazing iceberg pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. Here’s an image of the mega-iceberg A53a taken from the International Space Station on January 15, 2008 by a crew member of [...]

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Glacier Pictures

May 10, 2010

Here are some glacier pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This image shows the collision of B-09B iceberg with the Mertz Glacier taken on February 20, 2010 by NASA’s Aqua satellite. B-09B had [...]

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