From Antarctica broke off a new giant iceberg

2017-09-27 16:27

From Antarctica broke off a new giant iceberg
The area of the iceberg is over 250 square kilometers.

Satellite imagery showed that Antarctica broke another giant iceberg, an area of over 250 square miles, reports The Independent, reports Rus.Media .

The publication reports that the iceberg broke away from the glacier pine island, which is characterized by a fast rate of melting.

Images from the satellite Sentinel-1 was promulgated by the employee of the Delft University of technology Stephen Lermitte on his Twitter-page.

“Breaking news from Pine Island Glacier, which lost 267km2 of icebergs today, after the internal crack resulted in a large calving event 1/n”

It is also known that the melting of the glacier pine island is actually a quarter of all loss of ice of Antarctica. In General, the volume loss is estimated at 45 billion tons per year.

Images were obtained on 23 and 24 September. They are clearly noticeable to the appearance of offshore water between the glacier and the iceberg.