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Thurston Island
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The Thurston Island calving front off of western Antarctica as seen from the window of NASA's DC-8 on Nov. 5, 2014. Image Credit: NASA/Jim Yungel NASA’s Operation IceBridge collected some rare images on a flight out of Punta Arenas, Chile on Nov. 5, 2014, on a science flight over western Antarctica dubbed Ferrigno-Alison-Abbott 01. The crew snapped a few shots of a calving front of the Antarctic ice sheet.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineThurston Island. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000908.
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