SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An iceberg's crash into an Antarctic glacier last year cracked off a huge swathe of ice, bringing to light a vast span of the Southern Ocean and providing scientists with a chance to conduct experiments that may help understand climate change.
The incident, in which the iceberg clipped the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica and broke off nearly 78 km (48 miles) of glacier tongue, exposed a section of ocean water previously covered in hundreds of meters of ice and brought to light marine life including sea stars as big as hubcaps.
