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    12-Nov-2022 05:38 AM


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    NASA Satellite Image Shows World's Largest Iceberg Heading To Its Doom

    Antarctic iceberg A-76A, the biggest remaining piece of what was once the largest floating iceberg.
    In a new satellite image revealed by American space agency NASA, Antarctic iceberg A-76A, the biggest remaining piece of what was once the largest iceberg, could be soon heading towards its demise.
    Iceberg 76A is the largest among these pieces.
    Also Read: NASA's Hubble Telescope Shares Image Of Galaxies Connected 200 Million Years Away A-76A was photographed on October 31 by NASA's Terra satellite, in its natural-colour image, as it floated in the mouth of the Drake Passage, a narrow strait connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans between Cape Horn in South Africa and the South Shetland Islands to the north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
    The picture was published online by NASA's Earth Observatory on November 4.
    "It remains to be seen where A-76A will drift next.

    Source - NDTV
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