NASA spots a SECOND rectangular iceberg in Antarctica

NASA spotted a second remarkably rectangular iceberg in Antarctica.

Scientists photographed the phenomenon, known as the "tabular" iceberg, during an aerial survey named Operation IceBridge last week.

This new image comes just days after the online publication of a photo of a perfectly rectangular iceberg discovered in the northern Antarctic Peninsula.

NASA revealed that the second iceberg was spotted near the first one at the same survey, near the Larsen C ice floe.

Jeremy Harbeck, Senior Support Scientist at IceBridge, described the two icebergs gathered during the polar airborne survey on October 16th.

The second iceberg is slightly less rectangular than the first, but has substantially straight edges and angles.

The IceBridge operation is an ongoing NASA mission to monitor changes in the polar ice.

Last week, NASA shared an image of the first iceberg, characterized by sharp angles and a flat surface, on social networks.

"I thought it was quite interesting, I often see icebergs with relatively straight edges, but I've never seen it before with two angles as straight as this one," Harbeck said. in a statement.

The iceberg seemed to be freshly calmed from Larsen C, who released in July 2017 the gigantic A68 iceberg, an ice block twice as big as Luxembourg.

On Tuesday, it appeared that Mr Harbeck had spotted two rectangular icebergs during the same flyby.

On the new photo, Mr. Barbeck captured both the edge of the now famous iceberg and a slightly less rectangular iceberg.

The image also captures A68 off.

Mr. Harbeck added: "I was actually more interested in catching the A68 iceberg than we were flying over, but I thought this rectangular iceberg was visually interesting and quite photogenic, so on a lark, I took some pictures. "

The flight originated in Punta Arenas, Chile, as part of a five-week IceBridge deployment, which began on October 10 and ends on November 18.