{"id":746680,"date":"2023-01-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746680"},"modified":"2023-01-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:00:00","slug":"iceberg-larger-than-london-breaks-off-brunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746680","title":{"rendered":"Iceberg larger than London breaks off Brunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:04:25<\/p>\n<p>An iceberg around the size of Greater London broke off Antarctica\u2019s Brunt Ice Shelf due to a natural process called \u2018calving\u2019. The iceberg, measuring 1550 sq km, detached from the 150 m-thick ice shelf a decade after scientists first spotted massive cracks in the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the newly-birthed A81 iceberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Giant_iceberg_breaks_away_from_Antarctic_ice_shelf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/01\/Iceberg_larger_than_London_breaks_off_Brunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iceberg larger than London breaks off Brunt<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:04:25 An iceberg around the size of Greater London broke off Antarctica\u2019s Brunt Ice Shelf due to a natural process called \u2018calving\u2019. The iceberg, measuring 1550 sq km, detached&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}