This is truly amazing: you may remember that last August, a vast iceberg 25 km long calved off the Petermann glacier. This chunk of ice broke free and has made its way off Labrador and is headed to the north Atlantic. NASA's Aqua satellite caught it in the open water:
It looks almost serene and tiny, doesn't it? Yeah, until you grasp the scale of this picture: from left to right it's well over 400 km (320 miles) across, and that ice floe is still something like 20 km (12 miles) across, having shrunk a bit on its 3000 km journey. A beacon was placed on it last year and you can track its position online. Some fisherman shot some close-up video of the berg, too. It's unclear what will happen with this monster icecube. It may present a shipping danger, or even be trouble for offshore oil rigs in ...
