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A Growing Rift in Antarctic Ice

Images from the German satellite TerraSar-X shows how a rift on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier grew between October 2011 and September 2012.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data from the German Aerospace Center. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published October 19, 2012
Data acquired October 31, 2011

Source:
TerraSAR-X