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2/27/2008
The Lunar and Planetary Institute maintains a set of slides that discusses Mars; searching for Antarctic meteorites; ALH 84001, an Antarctic meteorite scientists claim contains fossilized Martian microbes; and exploration of Mars and the universe.
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2/27/2008
What started as a quick idea to spice up an IPY event developed into a full-length musical composition in celebration of polar science. Now you can download a ringtone based on "Polar Fanfare."
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2/25/2008
The animation illustrates how melt-water puddles on the Greenland ice sheet and drains through cracks to the surface below. This water lubricates underlying bedrock, causing the ice to flow faster toward the sea.
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2/19/2008
In this October 2007 podcast produced for Earth Science Week, USGS scientist Richie Williams talks about the agency's new satellite imagery of Antarctica as well as what's going on with ice on the southernmost continent.
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1/16/2008
The staff at the San Francisco-based science museum will talk live to scientists who operate the 280-ton South Pole Telescope and to researchers who will spend the six-month winter at the Pole. Live at 8 a.m. Pacific; the Webcast will be archived.
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1/5/2008
Alaska's KUAC-TV has produced 12, one-minute video segments on the history of IPY, IPY's importance to Alaska and the IPY research that's taking place on "The Last Frontier." Watch the first six segments on-line.
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12/17/2007
NSF-funded paleontologists working at 14,000 feet near Antarctica's Beardmore Glacier uncovered an unknown type of dinosaur. The massive plant-eater, named Glacialisaurus hammeri, lived about 190 million years ago.
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12/12/2007
The hands-on science museum has given cameras to penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic and asked them to document their adventures.
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12/10/2007
The fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is expected to draw more than 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. Read about Polar-related news released at the meeting.
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12/7/2007
This site, funded by NSF and produced by the team that creates the PBS public affairs program, features news and analysis of stories about the Polar regions.
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