NASA reveals the origin of the mysterious rectangular iceberg that rocked social networks

NASA revealed the origin of the mysterious rectangular ice floe that appeared last month, making headlines and provoking controversy on social media.

the images of the Landsat 8, and Sentinel-1 satellites of the European Space Agency to locate it and it has been found that since November 2017, the famous iceberg was originally rectangular, informs the organization of November 5.

A difficult origin

The peculiarity of this ice formation is its geometry which characterizes it by a right angle almost perfect in its three dimensions, exactly what it motivated the speculations on its origin, because it seemed artificially cut.

Stef Lhermitte of the Delft University of Technology, revealed the picture showing the smaller ones. icebergs freshly detached from the Larsen C ice sheet, including the famous tabular form, about 4 km long.

What's fun is that it has appeared since November 2017., but initially had a much shorter life span for the perfection of its edges.

From his detachment, he began his journey to the north, facing the threats of collision of to which these large blocks are exposed.

On its course, it used a narrow pbadage formed by the iceberg A-68 and some rocks near the ice platform known as elevation of the ice Bawden (survey of the Bawden floe), reports NASA

This area is so dangerous that NASA / UMBC glaciologist Chris Shuman likens it to a nutcracker a kind of clamp with which the disc breaks nut crust.

As expected, the iceberg that originally began collided and fractured into several segments

Now, the rectangular iceberg shape is a other, more trapezoidal of about 900 meters wide by 1,500 in length and is heading towards the fate of all those who preceded it when it reached the waters more hot northern, its disappearance according to the middle, the Universe Today.

José Ignacio Beautiful – BLes