Environmental

Satellite Observes Rapid Ice Shelf Disintegration in Antarctic

 

 

Larsen B: 2002-2012
 EU–(ENEWSPF)–5 April 2012.  As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. 

One of the satellite’s first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica – when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a few days due…

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