• Health
  • Science
  • U.S.
  • Technology
  • Business
  • World
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • Sports

Building a Better World

News and information

  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Our Team

Scientists shocked by alarming discovery in Greenland

April 17, 2017 By Dan Taylor

Scientists shocked by alarming discovery in Greenland

A major new discovery of something massive in icy Greenland has scientists greatly concerned.

Startling new images from NASA paint an alarming picture of the future of Greenland, and of our planet as a whole. The series of images released by the agency show a massive crack developing in the Petermann Glacier, which could be extremely bad news for the future of the glacier.

NASA’s Operation IceBridge recently flew over the giant crack and took some very detailed images, which were posted to Facebook on Friday. The chasm can be found at the center of the floating ice shelf, which is a tongue that extends into the water from the part of the glacier that sits on land.

The ice shelf could break off if the two cracks meet. The 1,295 square kilometer floating ice tongue is the largest in the Northern hemisphere. The Petermann Glacier lost 87 square kilometers between 2000 and 2001 to “calving”

“This paper illuminates the fate of the aquifer’s water,” said Kristin Poinar, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Before, we didn’t know if the water froze inside the ice sheet or reemerged onto the ice surface. In either of those scenarios, the meltwater would not contribute to sea level rise.”events, and 29 square kilometers in July 2008.

Sharing

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedintumblrmail

Filed Under: Front Page, Science

Comments

  1. Loren says

    April 17, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    Higher Water level in the ocean, will the new mass move Titanic plates?

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Follow Us

Facebookrss

Search:

Recent Posts

  • NASA’s InSight spacecraft makes important course correction May 26, 2018
  • Scientists outraged at latest Trump decision May 15, 2018
  • Huge uproar erupts over major incident at Utah park May 13, 2018
  • Incredible moon discovery stuns scientists May 12, 2018
  • Authorities shocked by discovery about common painkiller May 6, 2018
  • Outrageous crocodile experiment stuns scientists May 5, 2018
  • Great Barrier Reef is too quiet, scientists say May 1, 2018
  • Massive Hiroshima bomb discovery shocks scientists May 1, 2018
  • Earth will be slammed by massive asteroid April 29, 2018
  • Teens are doing something incredibly alarming in schools April 29, 2018
  • Huge discovery in Tasmania stuns scientists April 28, 2018
  • Shocking discovery in New Jersey stuns authorities April 22, 2018
  • Huge volcanic explosion could wipe out the United States April 21, 2018
  • Huge controversy erupts over world’s hottest pepper April 15, 2018
  • SpaceX is about to do something astonishing April 15, 2018

Copyright © 2022 Jones Kilmartin Group, LLC · Metro Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress