![]() ![]() But alien conspiracy fans will be disappointed to learn that it. 16, 2018, during a flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers have been keeping a close eye on A68, and in September of this year, it was reported that the iceberg started to spin and will soon collide with the ice shelf it came from. NASA has released an image showing an iceberg in Antarctica that appears so rectangular and flat, it looks purposely cut into shape. On Twitter, NASAs ICE team responsible for polar research posted a bizarre picture showing an iceberg that was almost a perfect rectangle. A rectangular tabular iceberg was photographed by Operation IceBridge on Oct. The icebergs sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf. Kelly Brunt, A NASA scientist, spoke with LiveScience about tabular icebergs and explained that they are wide, flat and long and due to its size could easily break apart at any moment. By Sarah Gibbens Published, 21:17 BST Ice Bridge flight: a tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. “The iceberg’s sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.” ![]() “A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf,” NASA ICE tweeted on October 17th. The rectangular mile-wide block of ice was seen off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula near to the Larsen C ice shelf. NASA called the phenomenon a tabular iceberg, which is it why it has such a smooth, rectangular shape. Image taken during an Operation IceBridge flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on Oct. Measuring about a mile wide, the rectangular iceberg looks nothing like the typical icebergs we imagine with jagged edges and peaks. Just past the rectangular iceberg, which is visible from behind the outboard engine, IceBridge saw another relatively rectangular berg and the A68 iceberg in the distance. The rectangular iceberg was spotted by NASA scientists near the Larsen C Ice Shelf, the same shelf where earlier this summer an iceberg the size of Delaware, A68, broke free from the shelf. The rectangular iceberg, photographed as part of a topographic mapping project tracking changes in polar ice shelves called Operation Ice Bridge, fractured in May after A-68 crashed. ![]()
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