NASA Discover Great Cracks in Antarctic Glacier

WASHINGTON - NASA's space agency found a large crack in a glacier in Antarctica. These cracks are found in NASA's mission Operation Ice Bridge which is the largest aerial surveys to monitor the Earth's polar ice caps.

Cracks occurred in the Pine Island glacier in 2001 is still a mountain of ice. Some scientists predict will happen again in the cracks there, but that estimate has not happened.

Since then the discovery, NASA conducted a study in more detail on the results of satellite imagery has been obtained.

NASA is targeting mission lasted for 6 years and produce three-dimensional image of the ice surface, ice sheets and sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.

"Actually, we are currently witnessing how this could happen, this is something very interesting," said Michael Studdinger, a scientist member of the Ice Bridge Project.

"This part of the natural process, but being here and witnessing the occurrence of cracks is an exciting thing," he added. As preached by Fox News, Friday (04/11/2011).

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