In a satellite image taken on January 9, 2022, East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf floats fully intact (seen at the bottom of the image, stretching from the coast at left to an island at right ...

NASA image of blue meltwater pools on the Amery Ice Sheet in Antarctica on January 1. These pools may weaken the ice shelf if the water leaks through fissures into the ice.

Examination of the seafloor reveals details of the ice's history. Read the whole story ...

What To Know. Half a year later, and NASA's prediction has proven correct; new images from NASA's Aqua satellite reveal the iceberg losing large chunks of ice off the South Georgia coast.