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This video is from the 16 October, 2018
northern peninsula

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IceBridge mission. We're about one-third of the
way into the flight right now in this

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video, and we have just finished our
first transect across the Larsen Sea ice

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shelf from west to east. And we are
making a right turn to get lined up for

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our second transect across the ice shelf.
You can see here, we're crossing some

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fairly large tabular icebergs. These are
remnants of the breakup of the A-68

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iceberg off of the shelf last year. The big square-looking iceberg

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at left as the is the one that became
somewhat famous in the media over the

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last few days. Now we're crossing some
combination of open water and sea ice.

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This big, huge tabular berg ahead of us
is the A-68 iceberg. It's about a hundred

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miles long, about 30 miles wide and you
can see the video here has been sped up

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by a factor of 20. And even at that, it
still takes us quite a while to get

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across this thing. And you have to
remember there as well, that we are only

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crossing the northern corner of it.
And even so, it took us a while. So now,

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we're back off the A-68 iceberg, heading
westbound. You can see the Sun there in

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the afternoon crossing a mixture of sea
ice and icebergs. And this big white mass