All eyes are on Antarctica’s #LarsenC ice shelf as a deep crack continues to cut across the ice, leaving a huge chunk clinging on. When it eventually gives way, one of the largest icebergs on record will be set adrift. Monitored by the Copernicus EU Sentinel-1 satellites, the crack in the ice is now around 200 km long, leaving just 5 km between the end of the fissure and the ocean. While we wait for Sentinel-1 to tell us when this 6600 sq km iceberg is spawned, read more… http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat/Giant_iceberg_in_the_making
(pic: NASA/J. Sonntag)