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Gorgeous Satellite Image Reveals Galloping Antarctic Glacier
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25.03.2015
One of West Antarctica's largest glaciers surged a staggering 325 feet (about 100 meters) in less than two weeks this month, the European Space Agency reports. Two radar images from the ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite on March 3 and March 15 reveal parts of the enormous Pine Island Glacier and its floating ice shelf making a swift trek toward the sea. The wild race to sea is typical for Pine Island Glacier, which flows up to 13,120 feet (4,000 m) every year. "Pine Island is not speeding up," said Eric Rignot, an expert on Pine Island Glacier at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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