Earlier this month, NASA published a strange and entrancing photo of a ridiculously square iceberg. And NASA scientist Kelly Brunt speculated to Live Science that the berg was likely pretty fresh, its sharp corners the result of recently snapping off of an ice shelf and not having yet been battered much by the elements.
Since then, however, NASA went back and looked at some more evidence. And it turns out that the squareberg had a rougher birth than what was originally believed. Satellite images showed that it split from Antarctica's splintering Larsen C ice shelf behind a much larger, curved iceberg called A-68 and made its way north into clogged, icy water.
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