This true-color scene is situated along Antarctica’s Scott Coastline (toward the west, or lefthand side, of the image), looking out toward the Ross Sea (eastward, or toward the right). Near the top of the image, the Drygalski Ice Tongue juts eastward roughly 80 km (50 miles) out from the coast. Just below this ice tongue is a cluster of large icebergs surrounded by a large bed of sea ice. The large, coke bottle-shaped iceberg toward the lower right was named B-15 by scientists; it captured the attention of the news media last year when it broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf and began drifting out to sea. Its progress was impeded by Ross Island (bottom center), which eventually contributed to breaking B-15 almost in half. The remaining portion of B-15, which is about the size of Delaware (roughly 160 km long), remains trapped by Ross Island. A large phytoplankton bloom (greenish swirls in the dark water) can be seen in the ocean toward the top of the scene.This image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s

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