Iceberg Slows Shipping Lands

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Long Island Size Iceberg Slows Shipping Lanes

The iceberg B-15A has slowed shipping lanes to McMurdo Station. In the summertime sea ice usually gets flushed out to sea, however this large iceberg has been blocking the sea ice from doing so. The size of this iceberg is 1,200 square miles, roughly the same size of Long Island, NY, which is 1, 377 square miles.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    3079

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Stuart A. Snodgrass, Kevin Mahoney

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/12/29

  • Scientist

    Jacques Descloitres (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Iceberg B-15A, Iceberg, Long Island

  • Data Date

    2004/11/09, 15, 19, 21, 26, 2004/12/02, 04, 07, 10, 13

  • Animation Type

    Regular