Giants joust in the cold



 
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.

Iceberg "calving"
 

 
The Envisat ASAR image swath.

Part of the normal Antarctic ice cycle
 
C-19 iceberg on 18 July 2002
 
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.



Release date: 8 July 2004