Mountains and glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula from above. A marine terminating glacier in Antarctica. The image shows Antarctica but NOT Cadman Glacier ...
SYOWA STATION, Antarctica--One week ago, a blizzard whipped through here, bringing with it many days of strong winds and snowstorms. After the storms, a brilliant star-filled night sky appeared ...
Artwork: Cryosat, with its radar altimeter instrument, was launched to orbit in 2010 Elsewhere on the continent, 10% of marine-terminating glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula are above the 25m ...
In July, a 1 trillion–ton iceberg, roughly the size of Delaware, calved off of the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica. The damage to the ice is being done not just from above, as the ...
Thanks to the ongoing success of the Antarctic Treaty ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at more than 9,000 feet above sea level and is a dream destination for those studying astronomy ...
During the austral winter 2005, the first astronomical site testing campaign were performed at Dome C, in Antarctica. Thirty-five meteorological balloons equipped with microthermal sensors were used ...