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Life on a Drifting Station40 viewsAn interior view of the NP-1 tent, which served as both living quarters and work area. Station members lived for nine months on NP-1. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station43 viewsTents at NP-1 served as both living and working areas. On subsequent stations, however, such as that pictured here, tents were used mainly for supply storage. Plywood was used for buildings that housed people and laboratories. Image credit: EWG.
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169 viewsAIDJEX 1971 Pilot Study: NASA, NAVOCEANO, and the U.S. coast guard made a series of remote-sensing flight over the AIDJEX strain array. The photo shows a NASA convair 990 making a low-level pass over the area
Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
AIDJEX Web site
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300 viewsAreas that contain much permafrost can look barren. But plants and animals prosper here in the summer days, when the top layer of frozen ground thaws. The caribou in this photograph, in the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, are migrating in the early fall.
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CLPX Map373 viewsMap showing the study areas from the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment. CLPX Web site
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Flattop397 viewsJohn Saunders standing beneath avalanche debris. In Trappers
Lake area in the Flat Tops Mountains, near Steamboat Springs,
Colorado.
Image Credit: Courtesy Lynn French, NSIDC.
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774 viewsThe old South Pole Station still serves as a storage area.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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468 viewsThe dining area of the traverse vehicle was small but sufficient for the team.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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162 views This view shows the SnowNet project research area in 2009.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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220 viewsMatthew Sturm carefully examines the area and collects data.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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broken sea ice1362 viewsSea ice north of Greenland.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Andy Mahoney, NSIDC
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225 viewsMegadunes are slightly rounded at their crests and are so subtle that a person on the ground cannot see the pattern. In this aerial photograph, the megadune area looks like light and dark stripes in the snow.
Image Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
Megadunes Web site
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