Satellites capture formation of enormous iceberg A74 on Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

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March 05, 2021 06:11:44

Since the early 70s, satellites have surveyed the ebb and flow of vast ice masses at the edge of Antarctica.

The data being collected from space has allowed scientists to monitor huge areas of the icy continent, even through the darkness and hostility of an Antarctic winter.

One of the more spectacular sights captured by the satellites is the calving of city-sized icebergs from ice shelves — the giant glaciers transporting ice from the middle of the continent out to sea.

Just last week, a huge 1,200-square-kilometre iceberg broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf near the Weddell Sea. It’s the first large iceberg to break off from this shelf in…