An iceberg recently spotted by NASA scientists looks like it was carefully cut into a perfect rectangle, and it’s getting a lot of attention because of those unexpected angles and straight lines.
It looks nothing like the craggy, uneven mass that sank the Titanic, perhaps the most famous iceberg ever.
But in fact, there is little that is particularly unusual about the iceberg photographed floating near the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, as sea ice specialist Alek Petty explains. He is a research scientist with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, the group that took the stunning photo, and is based at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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