A recent Copernicus Sentinel-1 image shows that a 76 sq km chunk ice broke away from one of Greenland’s glaciers in early August. It came from the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland. The European Space Agency says this is “the glacier’s largest loss of floating ice since 2012 and the most significant calving event in the Arctic since 2020.”
The ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite is a constellation of satellites that monitors Earth from its ~700 km high,…
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