Spy satellites reveal early start to Antarctic ice shelf collapse
Declassified images suggest ice flow sped up long before previously thought
![Photograph of the Larsen B ice shelf](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/060616_ts_ice-shelf-main_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
ICE SPY Declassified photographs snapped in the 1960s by spy satellites suggest that Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf (shown here in 1963) began deteriorating decades before its 2002 collapse.
U.S. National Reconnaissance Office via USGS