NASA Images of 2011

The past year will go down as one in which extreme weather, and major natural disasters, took a heavy toll across the globe. Some of the most unforgettable images of these events — and of the planet’s natural cycles — were taken high above Earth by NASA satellites. READ MORE





This NASA image, taken in December, shows a large fragment of the Antarctic iceberg known as B-15. When it originally calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in March, 2000, the iceberg — the largest ever recorded — was 183 miles long by 23 miles wide. That iceberg eventually broke into smaller pieces, many of which have melted only slightly as they remained in the frigid Southern Ocean. This fragment, known as B-15J, was about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) east-southeast of New Zealand. At least seven other large fragments of B-15 remain in the Southern Ocean.
(NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response team.)

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