Source: NASA Earth Observatory. Seriously, this gargantuan coffin-like object really was photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station on September 23, 2018. If you guessed that it is an iceberg, you are right.
A broader view of B-15T, from NASA's Terra Satellite. (Source: NASA Earth Observatory) Known rather unimaginatively as B-15T, the spooky, Brobdingnagian berg is seen here adrift in the South Atlantic Ocean between South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. NASA's Earth Observatory published the photograph today as its image of the day. And the day is, of course, Halloween. NASA didn't offer any statistics on the current size of B-15T. But I measure it at about 31 miles long. That would make it about two and a third times larger than the island of Manhattan. "After 18 years at sea, B-15T has entered a region where Antarctic icebergs go to die," according to NASA. It ...
