Penguin Beach
November 11, 2012
A Penguin Beach. Members of the IceBridge team visited a colony of Magellanic penguins near Punta Arenas, Chile‘s southernmost region, on a no-flight day. Image credit: NASA/ Maria-Jose Vinas
Birth of an Iceberg (video)
November 5, 2011
Flying over Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier in a DC-8 research plane, scientists participating in NASA’s IceBridge mission made a startling discovery on October 14: a massive crack running about 29 kilometers (18 miles) across the glacier’s floating tongue. The rift is 80 meters (260 feet) wide on average and 50 to 60 meters (165 to 195 feet) deep, and it marks the moment of creation for a new iceberg that will span about 880 square kilometers (340 square miles) once it breaks loose from the glacier.
