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479 viewsResearchers start to dig a snow pit.

From left to right:
Drew Slater,Matthew Sturm, and Steph Saari
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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449 viewsMark Serreze digs a deep snow pit.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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396 viewsDrew takes a turn in the pit.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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130 viewsMatthew Sturm and Steph Saari start digging at the SnowNet research site.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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105 viewsWhile Nic and Russ are off working on the weather station at NASA-SE, I'm digging another snow pit. This one is 2.5 meters (8 feet) deep! At that point, I reached the layer from the previous year's snow surface. 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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