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Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Iceberg B-46 Calving Event

Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Iceberg B-46 Calving Event

In late October, 2018, West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier released about 300 square kilometers (100 square miles) of ice. The largest iceberg, B46, was 226 square kilometers. With…

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atlas of a changing earth
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climate change
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antarctica
From  Jeffrey Carpenter 6 plays 0  
Date of creation
9/6/2021 12:00 AM
Video credits
Visualization by Advanced Visualization Lab, NCSA, University of Illinois
Contributors and team members
DEM data created by the Polar Geospatial Center from DigitalGlobe, Inc. imagery; optical imagery from LANDSAT; radar mapping from ESA’s Sentinel-1 satellite.