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    • Title First block of ice breaks away
    • Released 02/04/2009 5:40 pm
    • Copyright ESA (Annotations by A. Humbert, Münster University)
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      The first detachment of an iceberg is seen in this Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image acquired on 2 April 2009 at 11:55 UTC. As visible, the rift perpendicular to the length axis widened as the iceberg formed.


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