Antarctica’s Growing Ice Shelf Crack Monitored From Space | Video

By Steve Spaleta | April 24, 2017 08:35am ET

ESA’s Sentinel-1 satellite has been capturing radar data of the massive crack in the Larsen-C ice shelf. When it calves,“ it will create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded,” according to the European Space Agency. 

credit : Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by A. Hogg/CPOM/Priestly Centre, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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