![]() ISS008-E-12555 was taken first, and ISS008-E-12564 was taken 2 minutes and 37 seconds later. The false-color image from February 7 shows the entire top of the iceberg covered in a dark blue pool of liquid water in contrast to the bright blue ice.īoth photographs were taken from the International Space Station using a Kodak DCS760 digital camera and a 400-mm lens on January 6, 2004. ![]() More melt water had formed on the surface of the iceberg when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured two additional images on February 7 and February 9, 2004. Another oblique view shows all three large remnant pieces of A-38 close to South Georgia Island. This photograph was taken by astronauts looking south over the south Atlantic Ocean from the International Space Station on January 22, 2004. This piece of that iceberg is now probably about 150 meters thick, with around 15 m sticking up above the surface of the water. Originally the ice was between 200 and 350 meters thick. This iceberg was part of the original A-38 iceberg that calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf in October 1998. The water pools have formed from snowmelt-late January is the peak of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. ![]() From the orientation of the iceberg, the deepest water (darkest blue) lies at the westernmost end of the iceberg. The different intensities of blue are interpreted as different water depths. Astronauts on board the International Space Station took this detailed view of melt water pooled on the surface of iceberg A-39D, an iceberg measuring 2 km wide by 11 km long and currently drifting near South Georgia Island. ![]()
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