NASA's photos of a perfectly rectangular iceberg in Antarctica are oddly satisfying
A Landsat 8 satellite image shows part of the northern Antarctic Peninsula, with an arrow pointing to the rectangular iceberg.
On October 16, NASA scientists found a number of large icebergs between Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf and the A-68 ice island, which separated from the ice shelf last year.
The A-68 ice island is roughly the size of Delaware.
NASA's flying research laboratory carried the scientists around Antarctica. The aircraft is a modified Douglas DC-8 jetliner.
Just past the now-famous iceberg, NASA also captured another iceberg that was relatively rectangular.
The panorama below shows the whole iceberg. It was edited together from two images taken from the DC-8 laboratory.
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