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Roscosmos has shown a satellite image of the world's largest iceberg A23A
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] On January 25, the Roscosmos Corporation showed a photo of the world's largest iceberg, A23A. The photo was taken using the Meteor-M satellite. “According to the latest estimates, the area of iceberg A23A is 3,672 square kilometers, and it weighs almost 1 trillion tons,” the company’s Telegram channel says. The iceberg is in the Southern Ocean and is approaching the British island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The coordinates at the time of the photo were 56°51'14" S and 39°32'56" W. As reported by the Regnum news agency, oceanographer Andrew Meyers of the British Antarctic Survey said on January 24 that iceberg A23A could collide with South Georgia Island. The giant block of ice had been "trapped" for several months, but now it has fallen into a current that is carrying it toward land. The iceberg broke off from Antarctica in 1986 and remained in almost the same place for decades. In 2020, it began to move, but then got caught in an underwater funnel. In December 2024, the ice block continued to move north. Posted by: badanov 2025-01-26 |
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