Giant Iceberg's Birth Snapped from Space

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A process more than a decade in the making reached its climactic moment this week, when a giant iceberg finally broke away from the floating end of a Greenland glacier — and a passing satellite captured the drama on camera.
On Monday, a massive iceberg larger than Manhattan was birthed from the Petermann Glacier, one of the largest in Greenland, and began to float toward the open ocean.
The 46-square-mile (120-square-kilometer) iceberg appeared to make the final break in under two hours, as images from a polar NASA satellite attest.
At approximately 6:25 a.m. local time on Monday (July 16), the massive berg still hugged the glacier's seaward edge. Just an hour and a half later, at around 8 a.m., satellite images reveal that the berg had begun to move northward along the fjord that houses it, toward the Arctic Ocean.


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