Ice Data Center used the imagery from the ISS to examine surface features, including ice
margins, cracks, and surface melt water ponds to better understand the mechanisms and
timing of iceberg breakup. Large Tabular Icebergs can be used to model breakups of the
Antarctic ice shelf. Several sequences of polar mesospheric clouds were observed and
documented by the ISS crews, and imagery of auroras from the ISS and shuttle were collected
simultaneously with data from ground stations and meteorological satellites. Some of the data
were published and served to the public via NASA’s Earth Observatory website
(http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov).
PUBLICATION(S)
Scambos T, Ross R, Bauer R, et al. Calving and ice-shelf break-up processes investigated by
proxy: Antarctic tabular iceberg evolution during northward drift. Journal of Glaciology.
2008;54(187):579-591.
This investigation is complete; however additional results are pending publication.