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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Satellite sees 40-year-old iceberg melt, turn blue | Space photo of the day for January 12, 2025

A blue jagged shape is seen in dark waters with white foam from the sea with the large white label Iceberg A-23A next to the blue shape.

A colossal Antarctic iceberg that first broke free in the 1980s is now soaking up the summer warmth, and from orbit seems to be turning a shade of aquamarine. In this recent image from NASA's Earth Observatory, iceberg A-23A is streaked with blue meltwater ponds and surrounded by a halo of fractured ice, signs that the long-lived "megaberg" is perhaps in its final days.

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