Antarctic ice shelf A-76A, the greatest excess piece of what was once the biggest drifting ice sheet.
n another satellite picture uncovered by American space organization NASA, Antarctic chunk of ice A-76A, the greatest leftover piece of what was once the biggest icy mass, could be before long heading towards its destruction.
According to the US Public Ice Community, the chunk of ice is 135 kilometers in length and 26 kilometers wide (estimated in June 2021) - a region equivalent to about two times the size of London.
It is the greatest lump of the Rhode Island-size A-76, the past biggest chunk of ice on the planet, what severed from the western side of the Ronne Ice Rack in Antarctica in May 2021 and later split into three pieces: 76A, 76B, and 76C, Live Science detailed. Ice sheet 76A is the biggest among these pieces.
It was gradually floating along the Antarctica for over a year, yet its softening has sped up now and the ice shelf is setting out toward its possible destruction, the power source additionally said.
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A-76A was captured on October 31 by NASA's Land satellite, in its regular variety picture, as it drifted in the mouth of the Drake Entry, a limited waterway associating the Pacific and Atlantic seas between Cape Horn in South Africa and the South Shetland Islands toward the north of the Antarctic Promontory. The ice shelf is presently noticeable in the picture between Elephant Island and the South Orkney Islands, which are both concealed by mists, at the southern finish of the course, however its way recommends that it might before long move farther north into the channel. The image was distributed web-based by NASA's Earth Observatory on November 4.
NASA said, "Chunks of ice are not ocean ice; they are the drifting sections of icy masses or ice racks, though ocean ice is frozen seawater that floats on the sea surface."
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"It is not yet clear where A-76A will float straightaway. It is now in excess of 500 kilometers north of its situation in July 2022, when the European Space Organization's Sentinel-1 satellite showed the berg passing the Antarctic Landmass," the space office further said.
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