Date Taken:
December 4, 2012
Photograph By:
August Allen, NSF
Pine Island Glacier field camp staff attempt to excavate a mountain tent that collapsed during a wind storm. Pine Island Glacier, also known as PIG, is one of the fastest receding glaciers in the Antarctic and one of the main contributors to rising sea levels. The ice shelf that fronts the glacier is thinning, which allows the glacier to move toward the sea faster. A team of scientists visited the region during the 2012-13 field season to send instruments through the ice shelf to see how the water below may be thinning the ice. For more information, see the website, http://pigiceshelf.nasa.gov/.
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