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Striking 3D Satellite Images Show Shattered Iceberg A68a, Which Still Threatens a Sensitive Island

Striking 3D Satellite Images Show Shattered Iceberg A68a, Which Still Threatens a Sensitive Island
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A 3D synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) view of iceberg A68a and its offspring on January 5, 2021, with South Georgia island in the background. (Image: Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Antonio Vecoli)
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A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent offspring. Here’s what we know about these gigantic chunks of ice and how the situation might develop from here as ocean currents swirl the ‘bergs. ....

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Giant iceberg A68a has 'fender bender' moment

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By Jonathan Amos
image copyrightCopernicus Data (2020) Pierre Markuse
image captionThe berg is a little over 130km in length. The small broken chunk is just visible through the cloud
The icy colossus that is A68a has knocked off a corner, seemingly as a result of striking the seafloor.
The 3,800-sq-km iceberg, which has been bearing down on the island of South Georgia, looked in recent days to be turning with the prevailing current.
But as it spun around, it appears part of the frozen block may have scraped the bed, inflicting damage on itself.
Satellite images on Thursday revealed a roughly 150-sq-km chunk to be floating free of the main berg. ....

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A68a iceberg: Science mission to investigate frozen giant

BBC News
By Jonathan Amos
image captionRobotic gliders will be used to gather measurements under and around the iceberg
A team of scientists is being sent to the South Atlantic to study the giant iceberg A68a.
The 3,900-sq-km behemoth is currently drifting offshore of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia where it threatens to run aground.
If that happens it could make life extremely difficult for the wildlife haven s penguins and seals as they go about foraging for fish and krill.
media captionWatch the footage collected by an RAF plane over A68a
The researchers will approach A68a in the Royal Research Ship James Cook. ....

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Team of British Antarctic Survey Will Study Giant Iceberg - Novinite.com

giant iceberg A68a.
The 3,900-sq-km behemoth is currently drifting offshore of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia where it threatens to run aground.
If that happens it could make life extremely difficult for the wildlife haven s penguins and seals as they go about foraging for fish and krill.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will lead the expedition.
The researchers will approach A68a in the Royal Research Ship James Cook.
They ll use robotic underwater vehicles and sampling instruments to see how the frozen mass is influencing its environment.
Big bergs change the temperature of the sea around them and introduce huge volumes of fresh water as they melt. This affects conditions for all marine life - from the simplest planktonic organisms all the way up to the biggest creatures in the ocean, the whales. ....

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Mission to investigate gigantic iceberg A68a

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Mission to investigate gigantic iceberg A68a
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Robotic gliders will be used to gather measurements under and around the iceberg
A team of scientists is being sent to the South Atlantic to study the giant iceberg A68a.
The 3,900-sq-km behemoth is currently drifting offshore of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia where it threatens to run aground.
If that happens it could make life extremely difficult for the wildlife haven s penguins and seals as they go about foraging for fish and krill.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will lead the expedition.
The researchers will approach A68a in the Royal Research Ship James Cook. ....

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