The US space agency said the object's sharp angles and flat surface suggested it had. "And then you have what are called 'tabular icebergs.'" Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. "We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface," Brunt told Live Science.Why?: Kelly Brunt, an ice scientists from NASA, told Live Science there’s a reason for the iceberg appearing like a perfect rectangle. That iceberg, which represents 1 trillion tons of ice, calved last year, according to USA Today. The incredible formation, which shows just how precise nature can. (Photo: NASA/Jeremy Harbeck) Looking like a carefully chiseled ice sculpture, an oddly rectangular iceberg in Antarctica made waves when a photo of it was tweeted out by NASA. NASA have been sending out research aircrafts to image the ice, monitoring the Earth’s changing polar regions. Operation IceBridge has been studying the Earth’s ice since around 2009. The iceberg is considered to be from the Larsen C ice shelf, which is about the size of Delaware. Image taken during an Operation IceBridge flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on Oct. NASA/Jeremy HarbeckNASA scientists have captured images of an iceberg in Antarctica that looks perfectly rectangular. A research aircraft was imaging the Antarctic ice when they uncovered the rectangular iceberg, A-68, which is approximately the size of Delaware. Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, flew over the northern. NASA calls the captured design “a tabular iceberg, a type of iceberg both broad and flat,” USA Today reports.īigger picture: "The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf," according to a statement from NASA. A photo of the iceberg (vertical image) was widely shared after it was posted on social media. A flight for Operation IceBridge captured the photo.
What happened: NASA posted a photo on Twitter of an iceberg that looks like a rectangle.
The missions of Operation IceBridge is to provide three-dimensional images of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves, and sea ice. NASA captured an image of an iceberg that looks like a perfect rectangle. During a recent NASA Operation IceBridge Flight over Antarctica, scientists captured an image of a mysterious, perfectly-rectangular iceberg measuring a mile in width.
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