Larsen C iceberg, September 2017, satellite image

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False colour satellite image of the Larsen C iceberg (centre) adrift in the Weddell Sea (right), Antarctica, on the 16th September 2017. Colours indicate relative warmth. Orange areas are the warmest, white and light blue the coolest, and dark dark blue and purple areas are in the mid-range. This huge iceberg split from the Larsen C ice shelf (left) at the end of July 2017. It has an area of around 6,000 square kilometres, more than 10 percent of the area of the ice shelf. The iceberg split further soon after calving, with the main iceberg (down centre) named A-68A, and a smaller piece (top centre right) named A-68B. Image obtained by the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on the Landsat 8 satellite.

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