A NASA study, conducted in October 2011 on one of Antarctica's five largest ice streams, found a huge fracture line in the Pine Island Glacier. A few days ago, the American space agency released a short animation of the rupture zone.
The crack is currently about 18 miles (30 kilometers) long, and about 240 feet... |
29 February 2012
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Expert Robert Bindschadler, who holds an appointment as an emeritus glaciologist at the American space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, will lead the international collaboration of researchers that will start studying the Pine Island Glacier next month.
The expedition is the ... |
10 November 2011
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Officials at the National Science Foundation and NASA gave the final go-ahead for the launch of a new scientific research campaign on Pine Island Glacier, in Antarctica. The joint research team that will conduct the work is scheduled to be deployed on the field in mid-December.
Pine Island Glacier is one of the mos... |
10 November 2011
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Understanding how ice sheets, glaciers and icebergs are produced and interact in Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica is an essential part of figuring out how Earth's climate will change in the coming decades. Recent flights carried out during the IceBridge 2011 mission significantly contributed to this.
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4 November 2011
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During the 2011 NASA IceBridge mission carried out over Antarctica, experts discovered a very large crack spanning the length of the floating tongue connecting Pine Island Glacier to Antarctica. The studies were carried out from aboard a heavily-modified DC-8 aircraft.
Pine Island Glacier is a very large and importa... |
3 November 2011
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According to climate researchers and polar investigators, the ices the Antarctic is currently losing are playing an important role in raising the global sea level around all continents. Scientists knew this would happen, but the influence was not expected to become noticeable so soon. A new analysis, released an a re... |
26 January 2011
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A little more than a year ago, a group of investigators carrying out a series of research flights above Antarctica discovered a hidden feature below the surface of Pine Island Glacier, in the form of a deepwater channel, that brought warmer water under the ice, heating it from beneath. This particular glacier is in f... |
19 January 2011
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According to scientific evidence seen by the BBC News, it would appear that one of the largest ice sheets in the Antarctic, Pine Island Glacier, is melting four times faster than it did only ten years ago. Satellite measurements of the region have revealed the fact that the formation is at this time losing about 16 m... |
14 August 2009
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