Ice drains from the western Antarctic Peninsula onto the northern George VI Ice Shelf on 14 October 2016.
This image was captured by NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which has been on a mission to build a record of how polar ice is evolving in a changing environment for eight years now.
Originally published by Cosmos as What a drain
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