Most Beautiful Picture
The incredibly smooth surface of the sea ice indicates that it is topped with ample snow—possibly as much as tens of meters—which also drifted onto the berg’s left side. “That gives the little berg an almost ghostly aspect,” John Sonntag said, “just emerging from the bay as if it had been born there, which in a sense it was.” Many of Porpoise Bay’s bergs are born when ice calves from glaciers fringing the embayment. Calving is a normal part of life for glaciers that extend their icy tongues over water; it does not directly contribute to sea level rise because the ice is already floating when it breaks off. Source: NASA Earth Observatory.