Petermann Glacier Before Calving

Prior to the large ice island calving off Petermann Glacier, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Petermann on July 28, 2010. Eight days after this image was taken, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland.

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Unique identifier: GP025K2

Type: Image

Shoot date: 28/07/2010

Locations: Greenland, Petermann Glacier, Western Greenland

Credit line: © NASA / Jesse Allen / Robert Simmon

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Satellite Images of Petermann Glacier

Images taken from the NASA site, Earth Observatory, which show the iceberg calved off the Petermann glacier. The iceberg broke away on the 5th August 2010 and these pictures were taken on the days leading up to and after the event.

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