Earth from Space: World’s biggest iceberg

It all started in the middle of January when a giant iceberg located in the Bellingshausen Sea took off from the Antarctic Peninsula.

Ice Planet Orbital Recon: A23a Earth’s Largest Iceberg - Astrobiology

The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025. The ice mass is currently lodged on the seabed 73 km from the remote island of South Georgia, which can be seen just poking out from beneath the cloud cover. Although the size of […] The post Ice Planet Orbital Recon: A23a Earth’s Largest Iceberg appeared first on Astrobiology.

Earth from Space: World’s biggest iceberg

The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.

Clouds, an iceberg and a hidden island. Do you see it? Its serrated coast is visible just on the top left of the ice colossus... On this photograph of 5 April 2025 made by the Sentinel-3 satellite couple of the European Copernicus programme, the largest iceberg in the world, A23a,...