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Flying in Support of U.S. Antarctic Science Program, Air Force Makes Night Landing on Southernmost Continent
Using night vision goggles, A C-17 Globemaster III aircrew from McChord Air Force Base, Washington, performed the first known after-dark landing in Antarctica at McMurdo Station ...
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Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent
National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop ... Read More
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A Single Boulder May Prove that Antarctica and North America Were Once Connected
A lone granite boulder found atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America ... Read More
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New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
After enduring months on the coldest, driest, windiest continent on earth, researchers closed out the season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years ... Read More
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Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record
The NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly achieved a new milestone in the almost 20-year history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica by launching and operating three long-duration sub-orbital flights within a single Southern-Hemisphere summer ... Read More
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Penguins Helped and Hurt by Changing Climate
Biologist David Ainley has been studying Adélie penguins for 40 years, and in recent years has observed the effects of climate change on the flightless birds … Read More
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