{"id":3786,"date":"2012-02-05T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2012-02-05T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:32:20","slug":"18-mile-long-crack-seen-by-nasa-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"18-Mile Long Crack Seen By NASA In Antarctic Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>18-Mile Long Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier: <\/strong>Antarctica  is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The   pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier   (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places,   and 180 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s growing. In the next few months, scientists expect the  glacier  to create an iceberg about 350 square miles in area. It will  probably  float northward, melting as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pine Island Glacier is losing ice very quickly, about six meters per   year,&#8221; said Michael Studinger of NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in   Maryland, which sent an expedition called     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/icebridge\/news\/fall11\/pig-break.html\" target=\"_blank\">Operation IceBridge<\/a> to Antarctica in October in an old DC-8 jetliner, modified for   scientific operations.\u00a0It spotted the break in the ice. Earth-observing   satellites have been watching it since.<\/p>\n<p>To scientists, this is more than a vast spectacle. Both polar caps  are  losing ice, and researchers studying the world&#8217;s climate say they  want  to understand the process.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/18-mile-crack-seen-nasa-antarctic-glacier-205345573--abc-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/18-mile-crack-seen-nasa-antarctic-glacier-205345573&#8211;abc-news.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18-Mile Long Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier: Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep. And it&#8217;s growing. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}