An iceberg the size of Manhattan island
broke off from Antarctica or from the Pine Island Glacier on the southwest
coast of the continent.
NASA announced the new satellite photos
show that "birth" of an iceberg on 15. of February. What is disturbing is the fact
that this iceberg is not the largest that has emerged in this region and that
is the "average".
Moreover, iceberg is 10 times smaller
than that of the same glacier broke off in 2015., and whose greatest diameter
was amazing 30 kilometers.
However, the fact that the new iceberg is just one in a series, rounded legitimate concerns about the survival of a large body of ice that we call the Western Antarctic ice cover.
However, the fact that the new iceberg is just one in a series, rounded legitimate concerns about the survival of a large body of ice that we call the Western Antarctic ice cover.
The glacier, which is located at the
top of the cover and that the ocean pushes the ice formed on the territory of
Antarctica "give birth" to a new iceberg, but scientists fear that
they will be a record, and that in relation to her 30-kilometer-iceberg will be
insignificant.
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