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Research Station
An elevated dorm at NSF ’s Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station is shown with a new elevated station in the backcloth . The exposure was take on Sept. 9 , 2005 . The Pole is presently experience a period known as polite twilight ; the Dominicus will not rise above the apparent horizon until late September .
Open House
Unoccupied Jamesway shanty waitress for the summer place population to get in former October .
Stalled
A frosty dockworker waits for the payoff of the sun at NSF ’s Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station .
Severe Weather
A research team is shown braving the harsh conditions in the south-polar inside on a mountaintop roughly 3,900 meters ( 13,000 feet ) high , near the Beardmore Glacier .
Beneath the Surface
Principal Investigator James Morison , of the University of Washington , take water sample from the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole . The sampling is one of several measure taken annually as part of the National Science Foundation ’s North Pole Environmental Observatory project .
Heavy Machinery
A winch at the National Science Foundation ’s North Pole Environmental Observatory is used to retrieve a mooring that has been hoard oceanographic data from the Arctic Ocean for a year .
Collecting Samples
James Osse , a University of Washington field engineer , skims chicken feed from the surface of a hole used to retrieve a deep - ocean berth at the National Science Foundation ’s North Pole Environmental Observatory .
Beauty of the Sun
staff office from the University of Washington break down the mooring coterie erect as part of the National Science Foundation ’s North Pole Environmental Observatory .
March of the Penguins
Adelie penguins are wandering on the Methedrine of McMurdo Sound .
Hi-tech
Douglas MacAyeal , a National Science Foundation - funded researcher from the University of Chicago , uploads new instruction to an automated weather station on iceberg B-15A. MacAyeal land on the immense iceberg , perhaps for the last time , in January 2005 to religious service weather post he had placed on the iceberg a year ago .
Master Plan
U.S. Coast Guard pilot Sidonie Bosin sketches out a purpose road for an informal photo reconnaissance mission of iceberg B-15 .
