14 DAY TRIAL // Researchers with NASA, i.e. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States, have recently announced that a seriously oversized Antarctic iceberg is now heading towards the open ocean.
Thus, it is expected that it will not be long now until the iceberg gets swept up in the currents of the Southern Ocean, Boing Boing informs.
The trouble is that, since the Antarctica is getting ready for winter, keeping tabs on its movements will be a fairly difficult thing to do over the next six months, the same source details.
As explained in the NASA video below, this ginormous iceberg formed in last year's November, when it broke off from the Pine Island Glacier.
Its official name is B-31, but odds are there are some who think that “holly cow, that is one giant block of ice” would be a much more suitable moniker.
This is because, according to NASA estimates, this iceberg measured about 33 miles (53.1 kilometers) in length and 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in width as of April 11. Besides, the block of ice is said to be about 500 meters (1,640 feet) thick.
For the time being, the Antarctic iceberg is not a threat to shipping activities, specialists working with NASA wished to reassure the public.
