The Moon may have played an important role in the loss of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, a team of experts now proposes. They say that a very rare lunar event caused a night of very big tides on January 4, 1912, forcing the large chunk of ice that impacted the ship to separate from the Arctic. The Olympic-class ... |
7 March 2012
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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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The Pine Island Glacier, known among experts as PIG, is one of Antarctica's five largest ice streams, and one of the most important ice fields in the world. During a study conducted at the location by NASA scientists, back in October 2011, a huge crack was found scarring its surface.
This is nothing but bad ne... |
31 January 2012
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This new image from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard the NASA Earth Observing-1 satellite shows a portion of the East Antarctica coastline. Numerous types of ices can be seen in these images, which also depicts water that appears black from above. This happens because water from melting ice is a lot d... |
24 October 2011
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A massive ice island that broke off the Greenland ice sheet nearly a year ago has now been identified off the coasts of Labrador, Canada. The massive iceberg has been drifting in the North Atlantic, posing a danger for navigation, but authorities now know its location. The object became separated from the Petermann G... |
6 July 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that icebergs melting in the world's oceans are actually helping make the waters more fertile. This is accomplished by adding more of the chemical iron into the water mixture, which in turn leads to more phytoplankton blooms.These blooms are... |
16 May 2011
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A team of investigators from the United States has discovered that icebergs floating around in the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica, are not only contributing to sea level rise, but that they also play a previously-unknown role in the global carbon cycle and in climate control.
What the team discovered was that the... |
26 March 2011
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Evidence from a new investigation would appear to suggest that the Martian surface was once so frigid that it contained a primeval ocean, filled with glaciers and icebergs. The new discoveries do not support any of the two leading theories on how Mars looked like in the past, but rather hint at a third idea, that was... |
1 October 2010
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The large iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland about a month ago is now making its way into the Nares Strait, satellites observations reveal. The massive piece of ice broke away from the glacier in August 5, and has been slowly moving away ever since. It represents about one quarter of the former... |
4 September 2010
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NASA is keeping an eye on a massive iceberg, that broke off a glacier in Greenland about a week ago. Officials at the American space agency say that the large chunk of ice, which is about four times larger than Manhattan, could reach a position from which it could threaten shipping lanes in the region. This will happ... |
13 August 2010
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People living on an island of New Zealand were puzzled to discover one morning a large number of icebergs floating off their coasts. The ice blocks, more than a hundred of them, came all the way from Antarctica, according to a group of researchers, and it may be that they were set adrift more than 9 years ago. During... |
24 November 2009
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Many boat captains have complained throughout the years that, at some coordinates on the ocean, their ships lose speed and almost grind to a halt, although the engines are fully powered and there is no visible change in the consistency of the water. Oceanologists have identified the cause for this occurrence in the s... |
22 October 2008
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