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A break in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
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- Title A break in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
- Released: 29/09/2020
- Length 00:00:03
- Language English
- Footage Type Animation
- Copyright contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by Stef Lhermitte (TUDelft)
- Description
Rift evolution across the ice tongue – a long, narrow ice sheet extending seaward – of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in September and October of 2018, as seen by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. The video shows the emergence of an ice sheet rift in a region that was previously stable.