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June 7, 2005
Time to talk about that berg again - B15A
Well, it's been a while, and since I'm still waiting for my "Live from Iraq" CD (see below, or click here), I thought I'd update folks a bit on the saga of B15A. After all, I am on Google's first page of results when you search for "B15A" and for some reason, the search phrase "sexy bergy bits" always seems to show up in my keyword search list results. Go figure.
SO? Don't know anything about B15A? That's ok, here are my earlier pictures and posts about it, be sure to check out "The Ice Dance". Briefly tho', B15 was an iceberg down in Antarctica that at one time held the title of "World's Largest Iceberg", was vilified as a penguin killer, and some media outlets tried to make it out like B15A was threatening the survivability of our Antarctic outposts. Some penguins probably did die as a direct result of the berg, but our outpost was never in "danger".
So what's B15A doing now??? Ok, take a look at the picture. YES, I know it's pink, that's because it's Winter down there and it's DARK. Not exactly good for picture taking. So this is a satellite thermal image of the region. For reference, the PINK areas are COLDEST, about -43 degrees C. The BLUE areas are WARMER, about -13 degrees C, downright tropical by comparison, right???
The iceberg is the rectangle (or aircraft carrier) shaped pink object close to the center of the picture.
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If you've been following it, you'll notice that the berg has moved away from the Drygalski "ice tongue" and is a bit offshore. Hopefully, it'll stay out there and begin breaking up rather than forcing those poor little penguins to walk 200km on two inch legs.
So there you have it, another B15A update.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at June 7, 2005 10:12 PM
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