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English: The icy landscape of Graham Coast, which lies on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image taken in December 2022.
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The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost and warmest region of the Antarctic continent. It resembles a 1000-km-long arm, stretching towards the southern tip of South America. The west coast of the peninsula is home to over 100 large glaciers, some of which are visible in this image; from the right: Murphy, Wilkinson, Drummond, Erskine, Widmark, Hugi, Lawrie, Weir and Comrie.
Like many places on Earth, the region has experienced exceptional atmospheric warming over the last decades. Using satellite data, a team of scientists have measured the speed of glaciers on the and discovered that in the summer months they are flowing faster than expected.
While some ice melts into the ocean, some breaks off into icebergs. The dark colour of the waters in the image allows us to easily spot many icebergs floating along the coast, as well as fragmented sea ice.
The Biscoe Islands also lie off the coast. The bigger islands visible in the image are the 45-km long Renaud Island on the left and the 29-km long Lavoisier Island in the centre.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites each carry a high-resolution camera that takes images of Earth’s surface. While there are many advantages to this type of optical instrument, they cannot acquire meaningful images when it is dark or very cloudy. However, Sentinel-2’s wide swath and frequent revisit times increase the chance of imaging when the clouds part, as we see here in this image.
Date 10 March 2023 (upload date)
Source Earth from Space: Graham Coast, Antarctica
Author European Space Agency
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