A Texas-sized block of ice
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
The first dedicated Antarctic Icepod mission was flown out across the center of the Ross Ice Shelf. Ice shelves are thick floating extensions of the ice sheet that form as the ice flows off the continent and into the surrounding ocean. These are critical ice features in Antarctica, bounding a full 44% of her coastline, where they serve as a buttress to slow the ice movement off the continent into the ocean.