NASA’s high-flying observational instruments are great at peering deep into space, but the agency also spends plenty of time staring down at our own planet, too. NASA has been hard at work in recent decades developing models and recording observations that show what’s happening to Earth, and now scientists are warning that a huge ice chunk is about to free itself from Antarctica.
A colossal crack forming on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica will soon cleave a chunk of ice twice the size of New York City, NASA says, and the increasingly unpredictable nature of the ice in the area could threaten research stations that have operated in the this part of Antarctica for decades.
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