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Giants joust in the cold

21 October 2002

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A series of dramatic images captured between 3 May and 7 October 2002 by the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite shows the formation of a new Antarctic iceberg measuring 200 x 32 km.

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Iceberg "calving"

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The Envisat ASAR image swath.

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Part of the normal Antarctic ice cycle

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Image of the C-19 iceberg acquired 19 July 2002 by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) sensor operating in the Wide Swath mode.

Credits: ESA

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