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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)
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      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.

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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Mission Sentinel-1
    • System Copernicus
    • Location Antarctic
    • Keywords Glaciers, Global sea level, Global warming, Ice, Ice and snow, Ice sheets, Icebergs, Poles

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