About the North Pole Web Cam Images in 2005

The initial web cam deployment in Spring 2005 failed because of technical and logistical problems.

Most images from Web Cams #8 and #9 are from the transit northward on the USCGC Healey icebreaker, and not from the North Pole.

Two new web cams were transported northward towards the Pole on the USCGC Healey icebreaker. Photos in the "Moods of the Pole 2005" are from this transit northward on the Healey (and not at the North Pole). Web Cams 8 and 9 were deployed in autumn from the Healey.

Web Cam #8 was deployed from the Healey on Sep 9, 2005, as close to the North Pole as the Healey could reach. However, it was so late in the season that only a small number of images were received before the lens was obscured by winter snow and darkness.

Web Cam #9 captured views of instruments being deployed from the Healey on Aug 25, but all images after that time were black.

Please see General Information about the North Pole Images for more information about the web cams, what you see in the images, and the North Pole environment.

More Information :

	• Web cam Home and Acknowledgments
	• Daylight and Darkness at the North Pole

	• All images	Current	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
	• Moods of the North Pole	Current	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
	• About the environment						2003	2002
	• About the instruments	Current				2004	2003	2002
	• About the web cam(s)	Current	2007	2006	2005		2003	2002
	• Weather data	Current	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002

The North Pole Web Cam is part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, a joint National Science Foundation-sponsored effort by the Polar Science Center, / APL / UW, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / NOAA, the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Oregon State University, and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.