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AVHRR Spatial Coverage358 viewsAVHRR Spatial Coverage Map of the Northern Hemisphere from the AVHRR Polar 1 km Level-1B Data Set. Blue boxes indicate individual AVHRR scenes for a single day.
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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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ICESat/GLAS tracks over Hektoria Glacier, Antarctica940 viewsThis figure shows an image map of three ICESat/GLAS tracks from the eight-day missions that were used to investigate the response of Hektoria Glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula to the loss of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in March of 2002. The three tracks cross the lower portion of the glacier at an angle. In dark blue are contours showing the level of speed increase in meters per day since breakup of the shelf.
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331 viewsThe sun shines 24 hours a day during summer at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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199 viewsSiorapaluk, the world's northernmost community, looms in the snow-filled air late in the day.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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154 viewsDawn breaks on a clear day in Siorapaluk.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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108 viewsKoni and his other graduate students finally arrive from northern Greenland three days after my arrival (bad fog had delayed their departure). This is the plane we leave in together for Swiss Camp, out on the ice sheet: referred to as a twin otter. Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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83 viewsThe sauna room. A few nights during the expedition we would turn on this sauna and heat up this small hallway room to 50° C (122° F), which felt good after a full day out in the cold!
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78 viewsAll done! After two days of work, you can now actually see the wooden platform that Swiss Camp rests on. Hopefully when all of the surrounding snow melts this summer, it will now flow down this platform and away from the tents.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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78 viewsDinner and a glass of wine after a hard days' work! Cheers!
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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99 viewsOne of a few last shots from Swiss Camp during our cloudy last days there.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
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243 viewsFilm poster from "Good Days on the Trail, 1938-1942: Film Footage of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado."
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