“When it calves, the Larsen C Ice Shelf will lose more than 10% of its area,” wrote Luckman on the Project MIDAS website in January. “This event will fundamentally change the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula.”
NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor recorded the Larsen B ice shelf collapse in 2002.
NASA photographed the rift on August 22, 2016.
These factors can speed up the development of rifts and make it less likely that ice lost in the formation of icebergs will regrow, he said.
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