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692 viewsOne of the most studied and interesting ice streams in Antarctica, Ice Stream B shows a number of features that indicate past changes and ongoing evolution. In this subscene the upstream ends of several ice stream shear margins are highlighted. Characteristic crevasse patterns, nicknamed "chromosomes," mark the ends of several of these margin traces.
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692 viewsTed Scambos grew a beard during the Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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682 viewsAfter weeks of 24-hour sunshine, the team sees their first sunset in Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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Sea Ice674 viewsArctic sea ice image produced from daily-averaged QuikSCAT sigma-0 measurements from NASA SCP Arctic and Antarctic Ice Extent from QuikSCAT, 1999-2004 Dataset.
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665 viewsResearchers take a snow core on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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656 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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Larsen B Ice Shelf654 viewsAn in-flight photo of the Larsen B Ice Shelf taken during the 2006 IceTrek expedition
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644 viewsResearchers take a snow core on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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641 viewsTeam members sit in the dining "room" of the traverse caravan.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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639 viewsThe IceTrek crew takes a test run at assembling the A22a Iceberg weather station tower.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
IceTrek Web site
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633 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
Megadunes Web site



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628 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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