March 22, 2010

Yet another iceberg crash in the Antarctica

A glacier tongue of the size of Luxemburg (400 metres hight) was broken from the Mertz-Glacier in the Australian Antarctica, having been rammed by the iceberg B-09B (97 km length) on February 26th. High resolution data from the German Radar Satellite TerraSAR-X show the recent situation in detail.

Mertz Glacier: TSX image from 27/02/2010
Mertz Glacier: TSX image from 01/03/2010
Mertz Glacier: TSX image from 02/03/2010