Sunset over the edge of Pine Island Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. This is the floating extention of the Pine Island Glacier, which is curently one of the fastes thinning ice streams of the West Antarctic ice streams. To study the processes and history of this glacier scientific expeditions visited this glacier in 2007 and 2009.
Species (common):
Year: 2007
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Antarctica:AmundsenSea
Investigator: Frank Nitsche
Expedition: NBP0702
Chief Scientist: Stan Jacobs
Species: