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Montevideo, April 18th 2024 - 05:48 UTC

Tag: IceBridge program

  • Friday, April 25th 2014 - 23:19 UTC

    NASA and BAS tracking major Antarctic iceberg, B31, now in open waters

    BAS marked the iceberg with a total of 37 GPS tracking devices earlier during the year (Pic NASA)

    NASA has lately spotted a gigantic iceberg in Antarctica, identified as B31 and together with UK's BAS (British Antarctic Survey), is busy tracking the monster island of ice, which has now escaped into open waters. Despite its sheer size and mass, --experts estimate that the giant iceberg is approximately 600 square kilometres in size--, monitoring is not going to be an easy task with the coming of the Antarctic winter and ensuing darkness.