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As Southern Hemisphere summer approached, radar imagery from the European Space Agency revealed new cracks were continuously forming in the seaward edge of the Antarctic Peninsula's Wilkins Ice Shelf.
ASAR image courtesy the European Space Agency (ESA). The ESA provides additional imagery of the continued break up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Published December 4, 2008
Data acquired November 26, 2008