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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

That rectangular iceberg NASA found is weird as hell, and it's not the only one

  Mian Adeel Soomro       Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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Flying 1,500 feet above the Antarctic coast, NASA scientists recently passed over a bizarrely straight-edged rectangular iceberg and snapped a picture of the floating slab. 

While an intriguing image for the many of us who don't take aerial surveys of the changing, cracking, and melting Antarctic coast, these "tabular" icebergs are a common sight for scientists working in Antarctica.

"It's not uncommon to see that in Antarctica — although that [the tabular iceberg spotted by NASA] is a fresh and sharp looking one," Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in an interview. Read more...

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