Petermann Glacier
Petermann Glacier is a glacier located in northwestern Greenland. A series of images discovered by researchers at Ohio State University who were monitoring NASA's satellite images in July of 2008, found that an 11-square-mile long chunk broke off due to a seven-mile-long crack. If the break worsens it could cause already rising sea levels to rise even more.1
Fast Facts
- Images taken by scientists from the Ohio State University
- Photos were taken between July 10 and July 24, 20082
- Images reveal that an 11-square-mile piece of the Petermann Glacier broke off
- Finding announced on August 21, 2008
- Petermann Glacier is one of Greenland's approximately 130 glaciers
- The last major ice break of the Petermann Glacier occurred between 2000 and 20013
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