Delaware-sized iceberg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf
Calving of the massive ice chunk raises questions about Larsen C’s stability
COMPLETELY CRACKED Images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites confirm the crack of Larsen C has reached the Weddell Sea, allowing an iceberg weighing 1 trillion metric tons to calve.
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With a final rip, an iceberg roughly the size of Delaware has broken off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf.