NASA's Operation IceBridge shares pics of a new crack in Petermann glacier

Here are some pics that were shared by NASA on the social networking site Facebook.

Washington, April 17: NASA on Friday clicked photographs of a new crack in one of the Greenland's largest Petermann glacier, during Operation IceBridge.

NASA's airborne mission has been fluying over northwest Greenland for the past several days.

Here are some pics that were shared by NASA on the social networking site Facebook. Let's take a look:

New rift on Petermann Glacier'

Portion of the new rift on Petermann Glacier's floating ice shelf (straight feature near bottom center), and an older curved rift from the flank of the shelf near top center. The shaded feature near bottom center is a medial flowline, whose presence may exert a stagnating effect on the propagation of the new rift toward the older one. [Pic Credit: NASA/Kelly Brunt]

Topographical image of the new rift

Preliminary ATM topographical image of the new rift, which is the thin blue feature at center [Pic Credit: NASA/ATM/Robbie Russell]

DMS image of the new rift

Preliminary DMS image of the new rift, directly beneath our aircraft [Pic Credit: NASA/DMS/Gary Hoffmann]

Petermann Glacier's east wall

Petermann Glacier's east wall near the terminus of the floating ice shelf, with blowing snow visible coming from the plateau to the east [Pic Credit: NASA/John Sonntag]

[All four photographs have been taken from the official Facebook page of NASA Operation IceBridge.]

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