Science Source Feb 2010
EN_90286391_0378
![Science Source Feb 2010](img/medium/arch1/dvd0114/21/EN_90286391_0378.jpg)
Ice shelves are thick slabs of ice that are attached to coastlines and extend out over the ocean. In the natural course of events, ice shelves often calve large icebergs. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, some ice shelves began exhibiting a new behavior: rapid disintegration into small pieces, likely as the result of warming temperatures. On February 28, 2008, the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula exhibited such a phenomenon.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on NASA
2010-02-13
EAST NEWS
Science Source
NASA/Science Source
bj9379
0,32MB
11cm x 11cm przy 300dpi
2008, 28, AND, ANTARCTIC, ANTARCTICA, AQUA, ARE, AS, ATTACHED, BEGAN, BEGINNING, BEHAVIOR, CALVE, CHANGE, CLIMATE, COASTLINES, COURSE, DISINTEGRATION, ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, EVENTS, EXHIBITED, EXHIBITING, EXTEND, FEBRUARY, GLACIER, GLOBAL, HOWEVER, ICE, ICEBERGS, IMAGE, IMAGING, IN, INTO, LARGE, LEVELS, LIKELY, MODERATE, MODIS, NASA, NATURAL, NEW, OCEAN, OF, OFTEN, ON, OUT, OVER, PENINSULA, PHENOMENON, PIECES, RAPID, RESOLUTION, RESULT, RISING, SATELLITE, SCIENCE, SEA, SENSORS, SHELF, SHELVES, SLABS, SMALL, SOME, SOURCE, SPECTRORADIOMETER, SUCH, TEMPERATURES, TERRA, THAT, THE, THICK, TO, VIEW, WARMING, WILKINS,