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Van at South Pole Amundsen Scott Station
Created: January 29, 2009 Taken From: British South Pole Expedition 2008 Arrives at Amundsen Scott Station Snapped By: Jeff Findley (jeffnf) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 472 Van at South Pole Amundsen Scott Station equipped with tracks instead of tires. |
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Is that a truck???? ! ! !
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 386 I was quite suprised when I saw four of these modified Toyota pickup trucks roll over the horizon. They provided support for the skiers as they raced to the Pole. The Toyotas were modified in Iceland by Arctic Trucks, a company that provides specialized vehicles to go way off the beaten path. |
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South Pole Telescopes
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 342 There are quite a few images of this array on gigapan.org. If you look through the images you will notice that the more distant scope does a lot of turning. Alas, I never seem to see it spin! |
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A Scott Tent
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 336 This one served as a privy for the tourists who visited the Pole. |
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Ceremonial South Pole Marker
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 319 This silvery globe on a striped pole sits in the middle of the flags of the 12 original signatory nations of the Antarctic Treaty. The Geographic South Pole marker was just a few feet behind me when I took this photograph. |
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Significant Sturcture
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Kilgore661 Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 290 Is this the research station? I had no idea there were such large sturctures at the pole. I thought it was all portakabins and tents. On reflection this is crazy idea, but still it is the first time I have seen such a large building down there. I would like to see the whole thing to see how big it is. Is it visible in Google Earth? |
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Another Van at the South Pole Amundsen Scott Station
Created: January 29, 2009 Taken From: British South Pole Expedition 2008 Arrives at Amundsen Scott Station Snapped By: Jeff Findley (jeffnf) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 275 Another Van at the South Pole Amundsen Scott Station, but this one has big tires instead of tracks. |
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DSL
Created: December 31, 2008 Taken From: British South Pole Expedition 2008 Arrives at Amundsen Scott Station Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 247 The blue building houses the Dark Sector Laboratory. The dish on the left side is the South Pole 10 Meter Telescope. The scientists here are studying the cosmic microwave background, looking for clues about the origin of the universe. |
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newbie
Created: April 1, 2009 Taken From: Kuehtai Ski Resort at Christmas Eve Snapped By: star time (startime) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 210 help me |
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IceCube Lab
Created: January 31, 2009 Taken From: Camp of the The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Ski Race at the South Pole Snapped By: Ella Derbyshire (grannydoc) Comments: none - add a comment Total Views: 200 IceCube is a multi-national project that is placing an array of digital optical detectors (DOM's) in strings of sixty each into drill holes that penetrate over a mile down into the ice. Their goal: detect neutrinos as they pass through the Earth. |