a mysterious iceberg It started to break off in january of the ice shelf ‘Brunt’, in the part of the Antarctica closest to the Atlantic Ocean. During the following 45 days After the initial detachment, the iceberg It has moved 150 kilometers further to the southwest.
this past monday March 13some researchers British Antarctic Survey (BAS) they have first recorded the entire length from a plane who has flown over it to capture the images of the natural phenomenon.
15 times the size of Barcelona
To get an idea of the iceberg size, scientists have used the entire metropolitan area of Greater london (England) and, to bring it to our territory, the extent of this phenomenon would reach 15 times the size of the city Barcelona.
The iceberg has received the name of ‘A81′ and it has already moved a few 150 kilometers for him weddell sea towards the Antarctic peninsula.
This is your first look at the huge iceberg that calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf in January ?#A81 is as big as Greater London. Our glaciologists filmed the incredible sight on the way home from Halley Research Station.
Here’s the full story ? https://t.co/u4P0tMiwHj pic.twitter.com/Rp6lKqmXRf
—British Antarctic Survey (@BAS_News) March 13, 2023
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Professionals have spent many years watching the platform of brunt ice, since they predicted that would break through a crack they named ‘Chasm-1’. As scientists have explained, it is already more than a decade what were you waiting for this detachment: “Since in 2012 glaciologists first observed the widening of ‘Chasm-1’the scientific and operational teams have been anticipating childbirth”.
He Sentinel2 satellite of the European Space Agency, has photographed the first trip What have you done so far? he icebergwhich is one of the bigger of our planet. For now, the ‘A81’ is expected to follow the same route as its predecessor, the Iceberg A76another large iceberg detached from the Antarctica whose size was the twice as big than this one, although it finally ended up breaking into three pieces.
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The large #A81 #iceberg which calved from the Brunt Shelf in Antarctica?? continues to move along the continent’s northwestern coast
⬇️Timelapse of #Sentinel2???️ images showing A81 drifting more than 150 km in 45 days between January & March pic.twitter.com/ziCzPvfoGd
— Copernicus EU (@CopernicusEU) March 13, 2023