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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Iceberg B-15A: Sample Composite
A 100 mile long iceberg, named B-15A, cracked in two between October 7th and 9th, 2003. B-15A broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Since its calving in 2000, it has made delivery of fuel and supplies to McMurdo Station difficult.
Animation depicting iceberg B-15A cracking in two.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2838 -
Video ID
SVS2003-0005 -
Start Timecode
01:02:37:00 -
End Timecode
01:03:24:00 -
Animator
Alex Kekesi -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2003/10/16 -
Keywords
glacier, McMurdo, iceberg, GCMD--Location--Antarctica -
Data Date
RADARSAT:1997/09/26-1997/11/04, Aqua/MODIS:2003/10/07-2003/10/09 -
Animation Type
Regular -
Airchecks
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1016iceberg.html -
Other Credits
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, MODIS Rapid Response Team. (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)