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In just a month, a large iceberg from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier has disintegrated.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story The Quick Demise of B-44.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 28, 2017
Data acquired September 28 - October 23, 2017

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI