Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, on January 26 2017, showing a small chunk of icebergs calving, captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Much larger pieces of ice broke away in 2014 and 2015. Warm ocean water seems to be weakening the ice shelf. JG5746 shows the shelf on January 24, before calving.

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