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| Roscosmos has shown a satellite image of the world's largest iceberg A23A |
| 2025-01-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On January 25, the Roscosmos Corporation showed a photo of the world's largest iceberg, A23A. The photo was taken using the Meteor-M satellite. “According to the latest estimates, the area of iceberg A23A is 3,672 square kilometers, and it weighs almost 1 trillion tons,” the company’s Telegram channel says. The iceberg is in the Southern Ocean and is approaching the British island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The coordinates at the time of the photo were 56°51'14" S and 39°32'56" W. As reported by the Regnum news agency, oceanographer Andrew Meyers of the British Antarctic Survey said on January 24 that iceberg A23A could collide with South Georgia Island. The giant block of ice had been "trapped" for several months, but now it has fallen into a current that is carrying it toward land. The iceberg broke off from Antarctica in 1986 and remained in almost the same place for decades. In 2020, it began to move, but then got caught in an underwater funnel. In December 2024, the ice block continued to move north. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #11 Fargin Ice Holes! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-01-26 19:10 |
| #10 #4#5 Ice holes gonna ice hole. |
| Posted by: Difar Dave 2025-01-26 18:12 |
| #9 Make enough holes in it and it'll break up. At which point, everyone will blame the Juice. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-26 18:02 |
| #8 #6 Make enough holes in it and it'll break up. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-26 17:18 |
| #7 ^ Hank Johnson has concerns |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-01-26 16:55 |
| #6 Unlike submarines, Grom, ice floats on top of water — it’s basic physics. So they can tunnel to their heart’s content, all they’ll get is wet feet. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-01-26 16:33 |
| #5 # 4 But they'll start tunneling - obsessively - until the iceberg sinks. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-26 11:59 |
| #4 the area of iceberg A23A is 3,672 square kilometers That wide, flat expanse, you could build a city there. Hey, Gaza is only 365 square kilometers. Have we found a new homeland for the Paleos? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-26 11:29 |
| #3 Its just out chillin! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2025-01-26 10:46 |
| #2 Yeah, I'd say 1,505.7 sq/miles is big. But it is pretty clear, we won't see it in the North Atlantic. So Al Gore can park his jet for now. But look at the Southern Atlantic Ocean currents, and its greater potential float paths. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-26 07:07 |
| #1 Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island heading toward penguin-packed island off Antarctica |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-26 06:19 |