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The Larsen B Ice Shelf of Antarctica photographed from space on 5 March 2002 during its final fragmentation. MODIS image courtesy of NASA’s Terra satellite, and provided by National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.