Name this Aircraft ...

Bear

Bear

Well-Known Member
and who has overflown this region .

Massive Iceberg Breaks Free In Antarctica
The massive crack first opened up in the Larsen C ice shelf back in 2014; by the end of last week, a roughly 3-mile sliver of ice was all that connected the iceberg to the shelf.

John Sonntag/NASA
A massive iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from Antarctica and is floating in the sea.

Earlier Wednesday, scientists announced that the 6,000-square-kilometer (about 2,300 square miles) iceberg had come loose, after satellites detected it had calved off the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.


THE TWO-WAY
An Ice Shelf Is Cracking In Antarctica, But Not For The Reason You Think

THE TWO-WAY
A Really Big Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Got Bigger
 
Hmmmmm ......

From the article
These photographs show close and wide views of the rift from the vantage point of NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft.
Click to expand...

I'm gonna go with "what is a DC-8, Alex"

earth20150701.jpg
 
It's already broken free:

Scientists announced Wednesday that a much anticipated break at the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has occurred, unleashing a massive iceberg that is more than 2,200 square miles in area and weighs a trillion tons.

In other words, the iceberg — among the largest in recorded history to splinter off the Antarctic continent — is close to the size of Delaware and consists of almost four times as much ice as the fast melting ice sheet of Greenland loses in a year. It is expected to be given the name “A68” soon, scientists said.

“Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes,” wrote researchers with Project MIDAS, a research group at Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities in Wales that has been monitoring the situation closely by satellite.

The break was detected by one NASA satellite instrument, MODIS on the Aqua satellite, and confirmed by a second, they said. The European Space Agency has also confirmed the break.

[Antarctica is set to lose an enormous piece of ice. The question is what happens after that.]

The iceberg contains so much mass that if all of it were added anew to the ocean, it would drive almost 3 millimeters of global sea level rise. In this case though, the ice was already afloat so there won’t be a substantial sea level change.

The Project MIDAS group said Wednesday that the effect of the break is to shrink the size of the floating Larsen C ice shelf by 12 percent. While they can’t be certain, they’re concerned that this could have a destabilizing effect on the remainder of the shelf, which is among Antarctica’s largest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...loose-from-antarctica/?utm_term=.9ca5eda69183



The BAS flies that region and has been studying the shelf. https://www.bas.ac.uk/polar-operations/sites-and-facilities/aircraft/

And this is NASA's DC-8 which has been flying the region for several years, and the plane that I am assuming is in the photo above:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12449
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top