Antarctic Iceberg A-81 Nears South Georgia After Three-Year Drift
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
NASA watched A-81 in October 2026.
- A2
NASA tracked the iceberg A-81 near South Georgia in October 2026.
- B1
By late October 2026, the Antarctic iceberg A-81 had neared the remote island of South Georgia.
- B2
By late October 2026, the Antarctic iceberg A-81 had neared the remote island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- C1
By late October 2026, a slab of Antarctic ice covering about 1,550 square kilometers (600 square miles) had neared the remote island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- C2
By late October 2026, a slab of Antarctic ice covering about 1,550 square kilometers—some 600 square miles—had drawn near the remote island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- remote
- Far away from towns, cities, or other places where people live
- instrument
- A tool or device used for scientific work or measuring things
- track
- To follow the movement or development of something over time
- scrape
- To rub roughly against a hard surface while moving
- stable
- Staying in the same state and not changing quickly
- drift
- To move slowly on water or in the air without control
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.