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724 viewsTed Scambos grew a beard during the Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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715 viewsAfter weeks of 24-hour sunshine, the team sees their first sunset in Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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690 viewsThis was the first sunset that the traverse team saw over the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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690 viewsResearchers take a snow core on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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677 viewsResearchers take a snow core on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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670 viewsThis photo was taken during a flight over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Bird Glacier lurks in the background, with Darwin Glacier in the foreground.
Image Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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668 viewsTeam members sit in the dining "room" of the traverse caravan.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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652 viewsAn airborne view of the overlapping nila blended into the smooth snow-covered sea ice, which an iceberg at center.
Photo Credit: NSIDC Courtesy Anthony Petty
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Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapse 2002650 viewsThis movie shows the events of January, February, and March 2002 as recorded by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) satellite sensor. The images show the Larsen B Ice Shelf and parts of the Antarctic Peninsula (on left).
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649 viewsResearchers take a snow core on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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Antarctica & Sea Ice645 viewsReduced-resolution image from QuikScat sigma-0 measurements. This image shows Antarctica and the surrounding sea ice on July 1999.
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643 viewsThis poster illustrates the required protective gear for traveling to Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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