Envisat image of the Larsen-B Ice Shelf

Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image acquired over the Larsen-B Ice Shelf on 18 March 2002. Just days after its launch on 28 February 2002, Envisat captured its first image showing how the 3250-square-kilometre chunk of ice fractured into thousands of small icebergs and began drifting eastwards into the Weddell Sea.