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Ice Shelves News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Ice Shelves.
Image captured on 2 June 2021, by the VIIRS instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Image captured on 1 March 2021, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Publication from NASA ESDIS describing research uses of data from EOSDIS - discovering the breakup of the biggest ice shelf in the Arctic.
Feature Article
Researchers study the aftermath of the collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf to find out what might happen next.
Feature Article
The 1978 launch of NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite carrying the SMMR passive microwave sensor ushered in the modern satellite sea ice data record.
News
NASA ESDIS article describing research uses of data - MODIS aids the study and interpretation of the history of Antarctic temperature and climate records.
Feature Article
The Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegrated within 35 days between January 31 and March 7, 2002.
Feature Article
Many processes that shape the Earth's landscape happen too slowly to be witnessed in a human lifetime. But recent analysis of satellite imagery shows that a large glacier tongue on the coast of East Antarctica has disintegrated, changing the shape of the coastline almost overnight.
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