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http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/463...tartida-formo-iceberg-tamaño-Nueva-York-.html
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A crack in Antarctica as an iceberg the size of New York
Friday November 4, 2011 9:11 | The fissure in the glacier stretches for 30 kilometers and is 50 meters deep.
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extend | extreme difficulty. The bark of the glacier, highly irregular, makes it impossible to travel across the surface, so that data are collected for study from the air or from space. Photo taken from NASA.GOV
WASHINGTON .- Scientists at NASA discovered in a glacier in Antarctica , a gap that continues to spread and should give rise in the coming months, an iceberg as big as New York City, the space agency the United States. The cleft in the glacier of Pine Island , in the western part of Antarctica is at least 30 km long with a depth of 50 meters and extending two meters per day. According to NASA, when they finally separated from the block principal, will give rise to an iceberg about 880 square kilometers. The iceberg should be fully formed in early 2012. The scientists clarified that the phenomenon is a natural fact, and believed it is not of global warming. Icebergs of this type are formed periodically in Antarctica: the latter is separated from the Pine Island Glacier in 2001. "These are cyclical events that take place every few years. The last big break came in 2001, so we are waiting to happen something soon, "said NASA scientist Michael Studinger . "We are very exciting to see what happens," he said. The crack was spotted in late September by scientists who were continuously monitored for changes in the ice shelf from an aircraft to fill the gap between the end of observation Satellite ICESAT , whose mission ended in 2009, and the ICESAT 2 , to be launched in 2016. (T?lam-Special)
Spanish to English translation
A crack in Antarctica as an iceberg the size of New York
Friday November 4, 2011 9:11 | The fissure in the glacier stretches for 30 kilometers and is 50 meters deep.
Photos view pictures of the day
extend | extreme difficulty. The bark of the glacier, highly irregular, makes it impossible to travel across the surface, so that data are collected for study from the air or from space. Photo taken from NASA.GOV
WASHINGTON .- Scientists at NASA discovered in a glacier in Antarctica , a gap that continues to spread and should give rise in the coming months, an iceberg as big as New York City, the space agency the United States. The cleft in the glacier of Pine Island , in the western part of Antarctica is at least 30 km long with a depth of 50 meters and extending two meters per day. According to NASA, when they finally separated from the block principal, will give rise to an iceberg about 880 square kilometers. The iceberg should be fully formed in early 2012. The scientists clarified that the phenomenon is a natural fact, and believed it is not of global warming. Icebergs of this type are formed periodically in Antarctica: the latter is separated from the Pine Island Glacier in 2001. "These are cyclical events that take place every few years. The last big break came in 2001, so we are waiting to happen something soon, "said NASA scientist Michael Studinger . "We are very exciting to see what happens," he said. The crack was spotted in late September by scientists who were continuously monitored for changes in the ice shelf from an aircraft to fill the gap between the end of observation Satellite ICESAT , whose mission ended in 2009, and the ICESAT 2 , to be launched in 2016. (T?lam-Special)