A dying iceberg.

[theweaselking]

"We're looking at Antarctica, and smack in the middle of this satellite image is an iceberg. The lower part of the image is the Ross ice shelf, and the top part of the image is sea. Jutting off from the ice shelf, pointing up and to the left, is the iceberg.

It may not seem impressive, but consider the scale here; that iceberg is 160 km long. If you stood in the middle of it you would see nothing but ice in every direction.

And so they named it: B-15A. (Bea for short?)

For two and a half years, this thing didn't move much because it was stuck on the ocean floor. This in turn screwed up the local weather, by messing up the expected ocean currents. Nobody but penguins and researchers cared, but apparently they all had a rough time of it for a while.

But if you look closely at the iceberg, about a quarter of the way up, you notice that it's cracked the whole way through."

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