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Eric Rignot Guest
Eric Rignot

University of California, Irvine

Eric Rignot is a professor of earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

FROM Eric Rignot

Iceberg the size of Delaware breaks off Antarctic ice shelf
To the Point

Iceberg the size of Delaware breaks off Antarctic ice shelf For several years, scientists have been watching a crack 120 miles long on the Antarctic Peninsula. Now it's produced one of the largest icebergs ever recorded.

9 min, 53 sec Jul 12, 2017

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