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View of the rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf as seen from the vantage point of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft on November 10, 2016. NASA scientist John Sonntag snapped the photos on November 10, 2016, during an Operation IceBridge flight. The rift in Larsen C measures about 100 meters (300 feet) wide and cuts about half a kilometer (one-third of a mile) deep, completely through to the bottom of the ice shelf. While the rift is long and growing longer, it does not yet reach across the entire shelf. When that happens, Larsen C will shed an iceberg about the size of Delaware. Sometime between July 10 and July 12, an iceberg roughly the size of Delaware split off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg measures 2,239 square miles and weighs more than 1 trillion metric tons. Following the split, the Larsen C ice shelf is now 12 percent smaller. NASA Photo by John Sonntag/UPI

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