In December, Digital Journal reported on the progression of the ever-growing crack on the Larsen C ice shelf. On November 10, satellite images showed the crack was getting wider, longer and much ...

An instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image on July 12, 2017, revealing the giant iceberg that just calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.

Landsat satellite images show the shrinking Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Image credit: NASA) "You can think of the Larsen or really any ice shelf like it is a cork in the neck of a champagne ...

It's pretty dark in Antarctica right now, but that didn't stop NASA's Landsat 8 satellite from using its thermal infrared imaging powers to get a good look at the spectacular iceberg that broke ...

The western edge of iceberg A68 with the new edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf in the distance. NASA "Not this berg. A-68 is so expansive it appears [as] if it were still part of the ice shelf.

In July, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded — measuring in at about the size of Delaware and containing a volume of ice twice the size of Lake Erie — broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in ...

Image showing how the Larsen C ice shelf has grown. Project Midas . A similar calving event took place at Larsen B in 2002 and 2003 and the ice shelf has been weakening ever since.

The agency’s Envisat satellite shows part of the Larsen Ice Shelf, which lies on a peninsula south of Chile, has decreased from 3,463 square kilometers (1,337 square miles) in March 2002 to ...

Satellite images from Wednesday, July 12, show that a slice of the Larsen C ice shelf covering about 1930 square miles has calved, or detached from the peninsula, over the past week (see Figure 1).

A growing crack in a portion of the ice shelf called Larsen C is poised to free an iceberg the size of Delaware from the continent. This Landsat satellite image, acquired in January 2016, shows ...

A new satellite image tracks the retreat of Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf, parts of which could disappear by 2020. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...