A Huge White Coffin! NASA Introduces Images of Icebergs Associated with Halloween | site of the portal sorae in space

This image taken from space. What is under the clouds floating in the skyhuge white objectBut……. Its outlines are reminiscent of Western artifacts such as coffins.

Indeed, this object is a huge image taken by the International Space Station (ISS) on September 23, 2018.Iceberg “B-15T”is. It has a long, thin straight profile, and it looks like a coffin due to the gaps in the clouds here and there. If you look closely, you can see that the outline is also not perfectly straight.

The B-15T was originally「B-15」It was part of a very large iceberg called B-15, which separated from the Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000,295 km long and 37 km wideThen, after leaving the ice shelf, it further split into more icebergs, one of which is the B-15T, whose size as of April 2015 is52 km long and 13 km wideIt was with.

The next image is an Earth observation satellite operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).“Waterfall”It was acquired in October 2017 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The B-15T in the center of the photo looks like a coffin … if you say so, it has an outline that makes it look. By the way, at the top right is another iceberg separate from the B-15 itself.「B-15Z」it is also in the picture.

[▲ L’iceberg B-15T e i suoi dintorni acquisiti dal satellite di osservazione della Terra Aqua nell’ottobre 2017 (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, Lauren Dauphin e Jeff Schmaltz)]

By the time the first image was taken, the B-15T had left the Southern Ocean and entered the Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA, and had traveled north to waters at approximately 54 degrees south latitude, which are generally warmer than the Southern Ocean. September is the end of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and the lack of ice in the surrounding area means that the sea temperature was above freezing. NASA has documented the 18-and-a-half-year drift of the B-15T since the platform rupture. Ross ice (as part of the B-15) to the waters where the iceberg is disappearing.“Journey to the Iceberg Cemetery”is expressed.

The first image was released by NASA on October 26, 2018 and will be reintroduced by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on October 27, 2022 after Halloween. During this time, NASA accounts introduce celestial images related to Halloween every year and the account names are “Ghoul-dard (originally Goddard)”, “BOOniverse (originally Universe)” and “SOFI-AAAAHHH! (Originally SOFIA)” is been temporarily changed to a Halloween style.

From space, we saw a coffin-shaped iceberg floating up to its frigid end. ⚰️

In 2018, an astronaut on the @ Space Station captured an image of this’ berg as it floated away from Antarctica, in warmer waters where it would eventually melt.#NASAHalloweenhttps://t.co/yVkhTMOTxo pic.twitter.com/UyKAMuzum

– NASA Ghoul-dard 👻 (@NASAGoddard) October 27, 2022

[▲ Tweet del Goddard Space Flight Center della NASA che introduce le immagini dell’iceberg B-15T]

Sometimes, when we look into the dark depths of the cosmos, we find it looking back! @NASAHubble captured stunning detail in this chilling cat’s eye here: https://t.co/JIs88rVkLH #BlackCatDay #NASAHalloween pic.twitter.com/Ti4JOcPnq3

– NASA BOOniverse 👻 (@NASAUniverse) October 27, 2022

[▲ Tweet dal quartier generale della missione scientifica della NASA che presenta la nebulosa Occhio di gatto (NGC 6543)]

SOFIA studied … a ghost ?! 👻

The Phantom Nebula, that is.

Astronomers monitored how the temperature inside the Phantom Nebula varies to help better understand the physics of other similar areas, known as photodissociation regions: https://t.co/5YdO8hGGJO#NASAHalloween pic.twitter.com/gSRmYpTxDl

– SOFI-AAAAAHHH! Telescope 👻 (@SOFIAtelescopio) October 27, 2022

[▲ Un tweet dello Stratospheric Infrared Observatory SOFIA che presenta la Nebulosa Fantasma (IC 63)]

connection
・Eyes that glow in the jet black universe. Hubble Images released to celebrate Halloween 2021
・“Cat’s Eye Nebula” with the most complex structure in all the skies
・Ghost hidden in the autumn constellations “IC 63”

Source

• Image credit: NASA, NASA Earth Observatory, Lauren Dauphin and Jeff Schmaltz
• NASA Earth Observatory – A place where icebergs go to die
• eoPortal – Landsat-8 – from 2017 to 2013

Text / Matsumura Takehiro