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NASA Releases New Image of Massive Greenland Iceberg
Description: An enormous chunk of ice, about 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, or roughly four times the size of Manhattan, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer-long (40-miles) floating ice shelf. The recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory]
URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=45384
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Source: NASA Earth Observatory
Publish Date: 8/12/2010
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