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January 6, 2014
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Several glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula as photographed by a NASA Operation IceBridge aircraft.
Several glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula pass between mountain peaks and converge in a single calving front, as seen by a NASA Operation IceBridge aircraft while returning from a survey of the Ronne Ice Shelf on Nov. 1, 2012.
Credit: Jefferson Beck/NASA IceBridge, National Science Foundation
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