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Message started by tallowood on Apr 5th, 2009 at 7:34pm

Title: Ice Block Ready - are we?
Post by tallowood on Apr 5th, 2009 at 7:34pm
Huge Antarctic Ice Block Ready to Break Away


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Photographs of the Wilkins Ice Shelf show that the area is "at risk of partly breaking away," according to ESA. The latest photographs were taken Thursday by the agency's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) satellite.

An ice bridge that connects the shelf to the islands of Charcot and Latady "looks set to collapse," ESA said in a statement on its website. "The beginning of what appears to be the demise of the ice bridge began this week when new rifts forming along its center axis resulted in a large block of ice breaking away," the statement added.

The satellite images showed that "rifts are quickly expanding along the ice bridge," according to ESA.

ESA announced in November that the Wilkins Ice Shelf had lost nearly 700 square miles in 2008.


How ling will it take to completely melt down?

Title: Re: Ice Block Ready - are we?
Post by tallowood on Apr 6th, 2009 at 3:53pm

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The Wilkins Ice Bridge, a thin sliver of ice, a 25 mile (40km) long bridge that was less than 0.6miles (0.9km) wide at its thinnest has shattered. The thin bridge, keeping in place thousands of icebergs and the remaining Wilkins Ice Shelf, has finally disintegrated.
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Bridge Breaks

Tow it away.

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