Northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf, comprised of four natural-color satellite images captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on January 6 and 8, 2016. Two large sections of the ice shelf have collapsed in recent years. Blue, meltwater-covered sea ice is now in the embayments where Larsen A and Larsen B once were. A remnant of Larsen B, now known as the Scar Inlet Ice Shelf, can still be seen to the south.

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