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5/30/2008
Mars is a cold desert planet with no liquid water on its surface. But in the Martian arctic, water ice lurks just below ground level. Phoenix uses a robotic arm to dig through the soil surface and explore this circumpolar region
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4/3/2008
Helen Amanda Fricker, an NSF-funded glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., explains why she "loves" math-- and why she couldn't work without it--in this video produced by the San Diego County Office of Education.
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3/25/2008
To fill a national void in the elementary school curriculum and capitalize on student interest in the polar regions, Ohio State University and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) have launched a new online magazine for teachers.
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3/20/2008
Millions of Adelie penguins storm Antarctic beaches annually to breed. For 50 years, researchers have been studying their life cycle.
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3/17/2008
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Acoustics Project’s field research in Antarctica in 2005-06 resulted in new discoveries about the region's seismic activity. View a video by Oregon Public Television.
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3/17/2008
As part of National Public Radio's "Climate Connections" series, reporter Daniel Zwerdling and producer Peter Breslow traveled to Antarctica under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's media visitors program. Read their reports.
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3/14/2008
The NOAA Central Library in Silver Spring is exhibiting some of its polar collection until March 2009, the official end of IPY. The catalogue and a searchable historical photo archive is available online.
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3/10/2008
A researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, Bariteau is sending home weekly dispatches From the Southern Ocean. He also recorded a video segment before he left about his preparations for the Antarctic.
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3/8/2008
Sea ice, which is constantly thickening and thinning, plays an important role in the Earth's climate. Scientist Dave Douglas discusses a modeling approach to estimate sea-ice thickness based entirely on observations of historical trends.
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3/5/2008
This image reveals a subtle sign of the far Southern Hemisphere's growing season: the yellowish-green tinge of some of the sea ice is probably a bloom of algae.
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