The British satellite Vision-1 captured very detailed images of the fault that created the largest iceberg in Antarctica in recent years.
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Iceberg A74 with an area of 1290 square kilometers a week ago broke from the Brunt Ice Shelf – 23 km from the British research station Halley.
The new photos show the crack a day after the split. The crack width in these images is about 2 km, and the length of ice floes, which seem small, reaches several hundred meters.
According to the BBC, the satellite provided photographs to the British Antarctic Service (BAS) to monitor the situation. BAS will monitor if the A74 could collide with the western part of the Brunt Glacier and cause this second fault, which will go even closer to Halley.
There are no people at the station now, it works in automatic mode. If a second split does occur, Halley will be 17 kilometers from the most likely location for a new crack.
The Vision-1 satellite was created by the British company Surrey Satellite Technology, a subsidiary of the European aerospace giant Airbus.
Vision-1 can fix details less than a meter in size on the Earth’s surface.
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