Cracks, increasing on the ice shelf, pounding in Antarctica, and soon have every chance to lead to the formation of a large iceberg.

A recent copy of Landsat support from USGS shows the rise of cracks in the glacier, described on NASA's website.

A crack along the top of the image from January 23, 2019-for example, the Halloween crack was first seen at the end of October 2016 and continues to grow to the East. More responsible discrepancy-a crack in the center of the image. Until now, the crack remained measured within 35 years and recently began to grow in the North at a speed of 4 km per year.

Scientists hope the fact that when these cracks join together, from the glacier will break away an iceberg with an area not least 1.7 million sq km, this iceberg is not among the twenty largest in the Antarctic, but will be the largest in a situation research of the glacier brunt.

Scientists are looking to see whether the loss of these large masses of ice will lead to subsequent changes in the entire Antarctic shelf.

“The future of the ice shelf is probably dependent on where the faults that take place will connect. If they connect up towards the South, it is possible that the ice shelf will become destabilized, " - said the glaciologist of the center for galactic flights named after Goddard NASA Joe McGregor.

The growing crack caused concern on the pretext of protection of people working on the shelf, especially the explorers of the Halley station, The English Antarctic service. This data base is generally not closed all year round, but has been locked up twice in recent years due to erratic ice changes. This station in 2016-2017 had a chance to retreat from the increasing cracks.