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An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B collided with the edge of the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica.
The collision caused the breaking away of a new iceberg (top left) that is nearly as large at B-09B. The image is one of a series of images from NASA's Aqua satellite that showed the progression and aftermath of the collision.
The floating ice tongue of the glacier is created as ice flows down from Antarctica and onto the water. Glacier tongues grow longer year by year until they eventually break off, calving a new iceberg.
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