Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf

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This is the crack in the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf seen when NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011 as part of the agency's Operation IceBridge.

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NASA / Michael Studinger

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