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Massive iceberg split
last update: Mar 17, 2008 11:15 AM
The Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) sensor captured the splitting of the massive A53A iceberg, just east of the South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Days prior to the split, the Canadian ice-tracking service, who were studying the images collected by the Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), it was notices that the iceberg was unstable and likely to split.
The iceberg originally calved off the Larsen Ice Shelf in April 2005. Each part now each measure about 30 km and are likely to break into more pieces as it is floating towards warmer water.
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