With further analysis, I still feel like the Ross Ice Shelf appears massively vulnerable to crumbling apart at the western section. I attach a few gifs though they don't contain much clarity of detail.
The first gif is Sentinel 2 L1C data from 2016 to 2023. It is not a long time range, though it does show the Koettlitz Glacier tongue conglomerate and surrounding ice advancing north slowly from the lower left. The deep southernmost ice rises hundreds of metres thick, with a steep gradient decline to single digit elevation near Brown Island where it is largely constrained, with a narrow escape route to the left of blocking islands. The northward push from Koettlitz is seen pressing forward into the moraine tongue segment, which appears to compromise the stability of the dark ice, somewhat like a thick upright paperback being slightly compressed inward toward the spine. The frontal ice shelf is coloured dark with seabed moraine fossils that also colour the scattered volcanic land masses which seem previously to have been largely connected, uplifted, shunted around and eroded by the forces of the ice shelf, after the forces of seismic activity. Ancient seabed moraine fossils could have been forced west and north through the expanding Ross ice shelf into and over the mountains in an ancient era in which the ice shelf had much more height, volume and thrust. The direction of ice flow in relation to land masses was rerouted with each significant lowering in shelf altitude over the centuries as ice was forced to flow around what it could no longer flow over the top of. The dot formations seen in the dark ice lining out across from Brown Island to meet the Daily Islands upper mid central, indicate previous flow direction and could also indicate area of rock formation underneath the ice such as potential future extension of the islands, or a grounding formation extending straight across adjoining Black Island somewhat like a shallow version of Minna Bluff off Discovery Island, seen cropped to the right of center down the bottom of the gif. If not, they may just indicate shapes of future icebergs rich in sediment destined to float away to open escape route for Koettlitz ice.
The main Ross Ice Shelf to the east beyond White Island and Ross Island, still has an elevation hundreds of metres thick. Though not visible on the gifs, a clear sheer zone between segments is widening as the northward flow of the main pack outpaces westward flow momentum into the McMurdo Ice Shelf section. Western flow seems more of a gravity slide pulling away instead of a strong weighted push which it seems to have lost. Southward flow pushes against it from Ross Island glaciers though there doesn't seem as much feeding into them from the island as the used to be. The Mc Murdo Ice Shelf has thinned past a point where the dark section of the ice shelf lost most of what was feeding into it from the east and from the south. It seems most icebergs from the shelf are unlikely to be very big due to prolonged multi directional crush. 50 years ago ice still seemed to flow north through between Brown Island and Black Island, which seems to have stalled. At some stage in time, ice flow between Black Island and White Island also seems to have stopped feeding into the deep corner segment of the Mc Murdo Ice Shelf. In its place, melt waters flow across growing crevasses of separating ice out to sea.
The second gif is of Nasa Worldview images from 2000 to 2023. Though the resolution is low, it still feels ominous. I tried to find cloudless imagery during heights of melting seasons. The dates vary wildly as the seasons vary wildly. Of note, the region looks largely like it looked at the end of the melt season 8 months ago, as if winter barely even occurred. With last year sea ice melt being ahead of average by about a month, leading up to the record low minimum, which led into freeze being about a month behind average, leading to record low maximum and again well ahead in melt progress, summer in this spot really looks like it has quite a few months of extra bite to it this time. The third gif is of similar imagery, though the focus was on finding dates near minimal fast sea ice at the terminus. Consistent sharp cuts through the sea ice are not a natural phenomena, but are shipping routes to the bases on the southern edge of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island.
It seems there is more information of shelf momentum and future ice berg shape outlines captured on high res Polarview still imagery. To better illustrate my reasons for concern, I attach a low res rough study of potential areas of interest worth monitoring. I'm not a scientist. Arrows point rough directions of potential forces that may be in play, as well as point to areas where I feel cracks may be visible. Red x's indicated where ice feed into the frontal shelf from behind have dwindled. I recommend scientists with access to high resolution comparison data of the ice shelf closely survey any active changes in dynamic.
I feel a minor calving may trigger a massive situation and it may be best to relocate away from there. I feel it should be closely monitored, though not from close. It's not like how it was.
