While NYC experienced torrential downpours today, an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier, Reuters is reporting.
The Petermann Glacier is located in Northwest Greenland and measures a massive 43 mi long and 9.3 mil wide. Today's calve is the second break in two years. In 2010, a smaller iceberg broke off and floated into the North Atlantic shipping lanes and endanger oil rigs.
The break was spotted by NASA's Aqua satellite, which passes over the North Pole several times, and was reported by Trudy Wohlleben of the Canadian Ice Service.
Despite its massive size, scientists don't believe the iceberg will cause any damage or adversley effect the environment around it:
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[via Chicago Tribune]
