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  • Thin ice is spotted from NASA's DC-8 aircraft from an altitude of 1,500 feet during a successful flight over Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier under blue-sky conditions on Nov. 9, 2009.

    Flying Over Thin Ice

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  • Flight over Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier (PIG)

    Flight Surveys Snout of PIG

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  • Palmer Station, Antarctica

    Greetings From Palmer Station, Antarctica

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  • Cracks in the ice could be seen during the Operation Ice Bridge flight on Nov. 4, 2009.

    Cracks in Peninsula Ice

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  • Many glaciers could be seen during the Operation Ice Bridge flight on Nov. 4, 2009.

    Antarctic Peninsula Glacier

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  • Punta Arenas, Chile, is where Operation Ice Bridge's Antarctic campaign is based.

    Punta Arenas, Chile

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  • Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow north past the South Island and converge with warmer waters flowing south past the North Island.

    Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters

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  • An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica on Wednesday, Oct., 21, 2009.

    Operation Ice Bridge Studies Antarctic Sea Ice

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  • Sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea in West Antarctica.

    Sea Ice from 2,000 Feet

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  • The Transantarctic Mountain Range

    Transantarctic Mountain Range

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