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The growth of the crack on the Brunt Ice Shelf. Change detection satellite images courtesy of EOS Data Analytics

A View of 2020 from Space

December 23, 2020December 22, 2020 by Geo Contributor

EOS Data Analytics, an AI-powered satellite analytics platform, shares satellite imagery that highlights some of the environmental tragedies that occurred in 2020 — California and Colorado fires, Hurricane Laura, Kamchatka spill, Norilsk oil spill, and the Calving on the Brunt Ice Shelf.

Map showing the location of Iceberg 68-a and the Larsen C ice shelf. Map: NASA

World’s Biggest Iceberg

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

In July of 2017, a piece of ice the size of Delaware broke off of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. When an iceberg breaks off … Read more

Birth of Iceberg From a Greenland Glacier Captured

April 22, 2019August 9, 2010 by Caitlin Dempsey

Envisat recently captured satellite data of the creation of an iceberg from the Petermann glacier in North-West Greenland.