Going Higher and Longer
The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super-pressure balloon prototype that will one day enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.

'Ice People'
Filmmaker Anne Aghion's latest documentary takes the viewer on a far-away journey to Antarctica, where she wants her audience to feel the wintery blasts of the wind and hear the empty silence of the continent.

The Shadow Knows
It all started with a science fair project at James Monroe Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M. Last month, teacher Turtle Haste and her student Andy Olander presented their data on a project studying sun shadows around the world - including Antarctica - at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco.

Together Again
Morton Beebe and Geoffrey Lee Martin shared in the adventure of the International Geophysical Year more than 50 years ago. Now they've reunited to write a book about one of the IGY's most pivotal figures - and hope to return to the Ice for a related movie project.

Previous Stories

• Challenging Orthodoxy
• Field of Dreams
• Outliving Expectations
• Dropping Off Supplies
• Weather Warrior
• Need For Speed
• Keeping Track
• Going on a Diet
• Away From the Lab
• Remote Operations
• Going With the Flow
• Cosmological Crisis
• 'Antarctic Souls'