Antarctic Ice-Mapping Project Will Fly for the Last Time in October
August 18, 2017
August 18, 2017
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news release:
In March 2002, when satellite images showed that 1300 square miles of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf--a slab bigger than the state of Rhode Island--had fragmented into a mass of floating ice chunks, scientists began to view Earth's polar regions in a new way.
"Suddenly the possibility that global warming might cause rapid change in the icy polar world was . . .
In March 2002, when satellite images showed that 1300 square miles of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf--a slab bigger than the state of Rhode Island--had fragmented into a mass of floating ice chunks, scientists began to view Earth's polar regions in a new way.
"Suddenly the possibility that global warming might cause rapid change in the icy polar world was . . .