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B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18 April 2005

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This detail comes from an ASAR Wide Swath Mode image acquired on 15 April 2005, and shows a broken off section of the Drygalski ice tongue after the side of the B-15A iceberg struck it.

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This annotated 15 April 2005 ASAR Wide Swath Mode image shows the aftermath of an ice collision between the B-15A iceberg and the Drygalski ice tongue. Note a drifting piece of the ice tongue towards the image top.

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Ice in opposition

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This animation combines ASAR images from 3 February to 8 March to show B-15A on the move again in the direction of the Drygalski ice tongue.

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Twin-mode ASAR Antarctic observations

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This view of the entire continent of Antarctica is a mosaic of Envisat ASAR Global Monitoring Mode images acquired between 1 and 10 January 2005. The Ross Ice Shelf and McMurdo Sound are at the bottom side of the image. Working in GMM, the ASAR nstrument can provide regular information on areas such as Antarctica where, due to constant cloud cover, the use of optical data is unable to support scientific investigations.

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ESA's ten-instrument Envisat environmental satellite has been observing the Earth for more than three years. Picture by EADS Astrium.

Credits: EADS Astrium

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Artist's impression of CryoSat.

The launch of the CryoSat spacecraft was unfortunately aborted on 8 October 2005 due to a malfunction of its Rockot launcher, which resulted in the total loss of the spacecraft.

At the latest meeting of the European Space Agency's Earth Observation Programme Board, which took place at ESA’s Headquarters in Paris on 23 and 24 February 2006, ESA received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.

Credits: ESA/P.Carril