A big iceberg that the New York City takes place in Antarctica

An iceberg 1,270 square kilometers covered by the Brunt platform in Antarctica Thank you for the crime of a huge iceberg, informs the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), where a research station is located in the zone.

This hecho ocurre casi a decade after that to identify the crime of the grietas in the Antarctic for the first time. The BAS glaciologists, who he was waiting for a big party event during my time a decade ”, the organization announced in a communication.

El ysberg, detallaron, is equivalent to the county of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, and its tamaño supera the surface of New York City in the United States. The desperate investigators who are part of November 2020, when the first indications of grietas were discovered. For those who are, the team of 12 people working in the station registered as the North Rift Sima is located at the nearest Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue 35 km away.

Off January 2021 the griet comenso to create with a velocity of one kilometer per day until you leave the floating ice platform of 150 meters of space. On the 26th of February, the grieta extends for several kilometers and releases the huge trout of ice in just one hour.

Professor Jane Jane Francis, Director of BAS, commented that The ysberg of the Brunt platform has been monitored for years with an automated GPS instrument network high altitude precision of the station, the tracks are as high as possible as they move and deform the platform.

Ademas uses satellite imagery of the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and the German TerraSAR-X satellite to recover data sent to Cambrige to meet his condition, including when not having personal haircut during the winter antarctic temperature of -50 degrees.

“In the closest weeks or months, el ysberg puede alejarse; you can find and find Brunt Ice Shelf ”, details the director, but if his movement is on track the station investigators, the GPS systems send an alert to the investigators

Although the iceberg is located near the BAS station, investigators assure that it is probable that this is affected by the part of the last days. Hecho, the station is located near the ancient Antarctica.

‘The glaciological structure of this floating ice float platform is complex and the impact of the “part” events is unpredictable “, detailed BAS on the theme. As a precaution, from 2016 the Halley VI Investigation Station will be reopened 32 kilometers from the entrance with the goal of retreating from the pass between “Abismo 1” and “Grieta Halloween”.

None of the grietas were born in the last 18 months, but, as a precaution, the solo staff was sent to the station during the summer. In the winter months, hostile climates make the evacuation evacuation of investigators difficult, the institution explains.

La Halley VI Investigation Station is an International Importance Platform for Observing Atmospheric Time and Space in a zona sinvolle al clima. In 2013, the station achieved the global status of the Global Atmosphere Vigilance (GAW) of the World Meteorological Organization (OMM), the environment at number 29 of the world in the third year in Antarctica.

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