An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours 3 time-lapsed photos
3 time-lapsed photos show the incredible disintegration of the Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica.
Within a 24-hour space, an area of sea ice larger than the state of Rhode Island broke away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf and shattered into many smaller pieces. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites captured this event in this series of photo-like images from January 12 and January 13, 2010.
Posted: January 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, Ice Shelves, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points, West Antarctic
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