Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica. Watch the glacier’s ice front as it retreats and sheds some notable icebergs over the past two decades.
Producer: Kathryn Hansen
Images and animations by: Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) data from the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota
Music: “Timelapsed Tides” by Asher Fulero
References and Further Reading
- NASA Earth Observatory (2020, February 11) Pine Island Glacier’s Newest Iceberg.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2020, February 10) Another Berg from Pine Island Glacier.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2019, May 13) Two Decades of Change at Pine Island Glacier.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2019, April 9) The Wide View of a Shrinking Glacier: Retreat at Pine Island.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2018, November 9) Pine Island Glacier Quickly Drops Another Iceberg.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2017, April 27) World of Change: Antarctic Sea Ice.
