Incredible new satellite photos reveal Antarctica's huge iceberg in stunning detail
The block of ice, dubbed iceberg A-68, may hang around for years in the open sea and is awesome in scale. It's roughly the area of Delaware, has the mass of 5.6 Mount Everests, and is voluminous enough to fill Lake Erie more than twice.
However, because it's the middle of winter in Antarctica, scientists have struggled to get good images of the iceberg. So far, they've relied on polar satellites like Sentinel-1, which uses radar to see through thick cloud cover.
A few days of clear weather in late July, however, gave Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 - a pair of satellites that operate as a tag-team - a clear, visible-light view of the scene on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.
Here are the new photos, released by Deimos Imaging and Urthecast in an August 3 blog post.
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