Deep Rift in West Antarctica (IMAGE)

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Deep Rift in West Antarctica

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Rift in Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, photographed from the air during a NASA Operation IceBridge survey flight on Nov. 4, 2016. This rift is the second to form in the center of the ice shelf in the past three years. The first resulted in an iceberg that broke off in 2015.

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Credit NASA/Nathan Kurtz.

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