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Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
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This ASTER image was acquired on December 12, 2000, and covers an area of 38 x 48 km. Pine Island Glacier has undergone a steady loss of elevation with retreat of the grounding line in recent decades. Now, space imagery has revealed a wide new crack that some scientists think will soon result in a calving event. Glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center predicts this crack will result in the calving of a major iceberg, probably in less than 18 months.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePine Island Glacier, Antarctica. NASA/JPL, 2001-10-22. Public domain. ID: PIA11095.
