Video File: Large Slab of Greenland's Petermann Glacier Breaks Off

  • Released Monday, August 9, 2010
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On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier, along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The glacier lost about one-quarter of its 40-mile long floating ice shelf, the Northern Hemisphere's largest. It's not unusual for large icebergs to calve off the Petermann Glacier, but this new one is the largest to form in the Arctic since 1962.

Slates are approximately 20 seconds each. Photo Credit Michael Studinger (NASA/GSFC). Click here to Download:

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See http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/petermann-calve.html

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This page was originally published on Monday, August 9, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

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  • Petermann Glacier Video File (ID: 2010103)
    Monday, August 9, 2010 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Richard Chen (NASA)