10 Years After Cracking Off Ross Ice Shelf, B-17-B Still Moving Slowly N. Into Indian Ocean

[hatrack]

The largest remaining piece of the slowly disintegrating B17-B iceberg, which broke off Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf a decade ago, resembles a cartoon drawing of a whale in this natural-color image from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this image on December 30, 2009.

The berg drifted around the Southern Ocean for years before heading northward into the southern Indian Ocean, southwest of Australia.



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http://spacefellowship.com/news/art17820/iceberg-b17-b-in-the-indian-ocean-as-seen-from-space.html

[dysfunctional press]

1. they should put some sails on that thing and steer it to australia...

and 'mine' it for freshwater.

[Hekate]

2. Really amazing. I couldn't see any indication or scale to show its size. Any idea? nt

[hatrack]

3. There's a little 2.5 km scale in the lower left - kind of hard to read

nt

[Hekate]

4. So it's about 16.5 kilometers long/10 and a quarter miles. That's some hunk of ice there. nt

[OnlinePoker]

7. When this was first reported they said it was 1/3 the original size N/T

[east texas lib]

5. Just a guess...

The scale bar is 2.5K, the iceburg (what you can see) appears to be roughly 6.3 times that length. Say 15.75K? That's pretty damn big.

[malakai2]

6. Reminds me of something...

"The white whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung. "