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1066 viewsSkiers continue on their race across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1059 viewsThis airplane waits to pick up the skiers at the end of their race across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1048 viewsThis airplane waits to pick up the skiers at the end of their race across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1040 viewsThis support truck followed the ski race across Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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Fimbul Ice Shelf1027 viewsThe Fimbul Ice Shelf is punctuated by numerous ice rises that occur where isolated rocky islands are covered by ice. Ice shelves may be particularly sensitive to changes in climate, and recently ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula have experienced rapid retreat
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981 viewsAntarctica is covered with ice--much of it in the form of glaciers and ice streams.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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973 viewsThe traverse team set up this scientific equipment on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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958 viewsThe traverse team set up this scientific equipment on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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946 viewsSouth Pole station sits on stilts to keep it from getting buried in drifting snow.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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Allan Hills927 viewsThe Allan Hills are located on the flanks of the TransAntarctic Mountains. Ice upwells onto the hills where combinations of winds and solar insolation cause the ice to quickly ablate. Meteorites that once fell over a large region of East Antarctica have been carried by glacier motion into this small locality.
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913 viewsSomeone set up a Christmas tree at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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909 viewsThe traverse team set up this scientific equipment on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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