The collapse happened at the beginning of a freakish warm spell last week when temperatures soared more than 70 degrees warmer than normal in some parts of East Antarctica
This satellite image provided by NASA, Terra MODIS 22 on February 2022 shows The Conger/Glenzer ice shelf and associated fast ice pre-collapse.An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much byThe collapse, captured by satellite images, marked the first time in human history that the frigid region had an ice shelf collapse.
"The Glenzer Conger ice shelf presumably had been there for thousands of years and it's not ever going to be there again," said University of Minnesota ice scientist Peter Neff. Helen Amanda Fricker, co-director of the Scripps Polar Center at the University of California San Diego, said researchers have to spend more time looking at that part of the continent.
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