It's the Size of Long Island and It Made a Hard Landing

From the newswires...

NASA satellites shows the sea ice adjacent to the B-15a iceberg breaking up quickly while the iceberg remains intact. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra and Aqua satellites shows hundreds of cracks in the sea ice near the Drygalski Ice Tongue. Scientists expected the berg to hit the Ice Tongue over the weekend, instead it appears to have grounded on a submarine shoal when it was just 2.5 miles from the tongue. Warmer temperatures and possible shifts in ocean currents are probably responsible for the break up of the sea ice nearest the iceberg.

To see NASA's composited movie, click here.

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