Giant Iceberg moving toward Australia
A giant iceberg known as B17B broke off Antartica’s Ross Ice Shelf 10 years ago and had drifted 1,700 kilometers from Australia’s coast. Since December, the iceberg has been slowly breaking up and melting due to warmer water.
The image below has been acquired with TerraSAR-X on the 15th December and clearly shows the main iceberg breaking up into fragments.
A recent image taken by NASA from the EO-1 satellite can be seen at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42234