Satellite Imagery Confirms Large Glacier Break
Research Tents on the Petermann Glacier. Image courtesy of NASA.
Two of the largest floating glaciers in northern Greenland recently broke away as evidenced by satellite imagery. See this link to the photos.
An 11 square mile (1/2 the size of Manhattan) piece of the floating Petermann Glacier in Greenland broke away some time in the middle of July. According to the ScienceDaily article that same glacier lost a piece 3X bigger between 2000 and 2001.
Researchers from the Ohio State University also noted a massive crack further back from the margin of the Petermann Glacier which could signal a much larger breakup.
Meanwhile, the margin of the massive Jakobshavn glacier has retreated inland further than it has at any time in the past 150 years it has been observed. Researchers believe that the glacier has not retreated to where it is now in at least the last 4,000 to 6,000 years.
Beautiful photography!...........
Jason Box, professor of Geography from Ohio State has some really sharp pictures and video of glaciers across Greenland. You can check it out right here.
