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Iceberg size of Chicago breaks off Antarctica glacier

2013-07-10 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier on Monday, July 8, and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea, according to a team of German scientists. The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers), and was seen by TerraSAR-X, an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space Agency (DLR). Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridgefirst discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011,...

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