Giant Berg on the Move:Changing Outline of the Antarctic Peninsula Forever
Giant Berg on the Move:Changing Outline of the Antarctic Peninsula Forever
  • By Timothy Daniel (info@koreaittimes.com)
  • 승인 2017.09.21 23:44
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Giant berg on the move(Copyright contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on 12 July 2017, a lump of ice more than twice the size of Luxembourg broke off the Larsen C ice shelf, spawning one of the largest icebergs on record and changing the outline of the Antarctic Peninsula forever. According to ESA press on September 20(local time) that over the following two months, systematic observations from Sentinel-1 showed that the A68 berg remained close, buffeting back and forth against the ice shelf. It was unclear what would happen to the berg because they can remain in one place for years.

However, the mission has revealed that A68 is now on the move and drifting out to sea. Images from 16 September show that there is a gap of about 18 km as the berg appears to be turning away from the shelf.


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