Enormous Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf Discovered

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 13:01 in Earth & Climate

NASA's Operation Ice-bridge has spotted a fissure 18 miles long and nearly 165 feet deep in the Pine Island Glacier. An iceberg the size of 497 square miles could be produced from the rift.

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