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Paths Less Taken
The Antarctic
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Instruments mounted on the roof of the Clean Air Facility. Air sampling stacksin the center and pyrheliometer on the right.
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Instruments mounted on the roof of the Clean Air Facility. Four separatewavelength pyrometers measuring total radiation from the sun and sky.
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Instruments mounted on the roof of the Clean Air Facility. Four separatewavelength pyrometers measuring total radiation from the sun and sky. Notehoses supplying air to keep ice crystals off the domes.
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Ultraviolet pyrometer mounted on the roof of the Clean Air Facility.
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Inside the Clean Air Facility. Normal incidence pyrheliometer with filter wheel
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Beautiful frost patterns develop on the windows of the Clean Air Facility
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A view of South Pole Station
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The view of the South Pole and the Antarctic Plateau from the station. Theice here is over 9000 feet thick. The nearest land feature is a mountain rangeover 300 miles away.
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The Clean Air Facility on a day without a horizon. Flags mark path.
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Without buildings and markers, it would be difficult to tell which way is up onthis gray day.
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The Skylab building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on thethird floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras.
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Aerial view of South Pole Station when it was first built.
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Aerial view of South Pole Station - Clean Air Facility visible in upper right.This was taken after several years of drifting snow.
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Exploring the old South Pole Station which was abandoned in 1975.
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Lieutenant John Bortniak out for a stroll at the South Pole
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A cargo plane that didn't quite make it.
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Remains of a wrecked cargo plane.
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Lieutenant Bortniak at the controls. Already growing a nice set of whiskers.Exploring the wreck of a Hercules C-130 at the end of the runway.
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This is why the South Pole has a geodesic dome. The sledding was great.
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Iridescent clouds surround the sun.
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