Smoke billows over Antarctica, NASA reveals signs of the end of the world

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Antarctica emits smoke. This news was reported by NASA some time ago.

The report comes from images taken by the US Geological Survey’s Landsat 8 satellite on October 10, 2024. The image shows the Sea of ​​Smoke at the top of the Pine Island Glacier.

A glaciologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Crísdean Shuman, explained that the images taken by the satellite show the strength of the wind. Sea Smoke appears to be smoke due to rising steam.

There is a temperature difference when this happens. At that time cold air passed over the warm water at the edge of the glacier and created fog.

The wind pushes water and sea ice away and brings warm water instead, reported USA Today, Tuesday (5/11/2024).

USA Today wrote that wind phenomena could help scientists understand Antarctic climate change. Especially what happened in the Pine Island glacier area.

Meanwhile, pine is one of the main ice routes from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Amundsen Sea. Pine Glacier is also one of the fastest melting areas in Antarctica.

There is enough ice in the pines to cause global sea levels to rise. The height can reach four feet or about 121 cm.

Much of the ice on the Pine Glacier has melted over the last three decades. Including an iceberg twice the size of Washington DC in 2020.

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