The Conger Glacier was located off the east coast of Antarctica. Its area was almost 1200
Images of the destruction obtained by the Landsat and MODIS satellites were published on Twitter by Catherine Walker, a NASA specialist, Earth researcher and planetary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
New @usnatice-named icebergs resulting fromcomplete collapse of East Antarctica's Conger Ice Shelf (~1200 sq. km) on/around March 15, seen in combo of #Landsat and #MODIS imagery. #CongerIceShelf #Antarctica @helenafricker @jdmillstein https://t.co/16JtKcXQPY pic.twitter.com/lSKMNgRgNi
— Catherine Colello Walker (@CapComCatWalk) March 24, 2022
Images released by Walker show the shelf slowly receding until March 14. And in the picture on March 16, you can see that the glacier has completely split.
“Ice sheets are critical forcurbing the flow of ice from the continent into the sea. — notes Andrew McIntosh, a glacier researcher at Monash University in Australia. “If the containment shield collapses, the flow of ice from land will accelerate and lead to sea level rise.”
Scientists associate the destruction of the glacier with anomalousthe heat that settled in Antarctica in March. Hitech previously wrote about record warming, during which the temperature on the southernmost continent rose 40°C above normal.
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