Interesting images of Antarctica

Any of the images below are freely available for use with proper credit given to the AMRC and/or AWS. If the images are courtesy of another group, please credit that organization. Please feel free to email the AMRC for information on how to properly credit the images needed, and a prompt response will be given.

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Below are interesting satellite images from the AMRC, NIC, and RPSC. Please see specific description for each picture for acknowledgments.

March 13, 2005 Visible Image of the "iceberg graveyard". Has broken up from earlier image one month prior (see next image). Courtesy of AMRC/SSEC/UW-Madison).	February 3, 2005 DMSP Visible Image (courtesy of National Ice Center)
January 28, 2004 image of the "iceberg graveyard". Courtesy of AMRC/SSEC/UW-Madison).	January 26, 2004 DMSP image of Ross area dissipation trail (courtesy of RPSC)
January 26, 2004 DMSP zoomed in image of Ross area dissipation trail (courtesy of RPSC)	January 26, 2004 DMSP zoomed in image of Ross area dissipation trail with labels (courtesy of RPSC)

The images below are courtesy of the Polar Sea website http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/polarsea/home.htm.

Lenticular Clouds at Mt. Erebus

Orca breaking through ice

Skua Bird

Polar Sea and Polar Star Icebreakers

The images below are images from the 2004-05 summer Antarctic field season. Credit should be given to Jonathan Thom, AMRC/SSEC/UW-Madison.

The pile that covers up the C-16 webcam. Image courtesy of Jonathan Thom of the AWS project.

The webcam located at the Nascent Iceberg AWS site. Image courtesy of Jonathan Thom of the AWS project.

The images below are from a February 2005 AWS field excursion to Cape Bird. Images are courtesy of Mark Seefeldt from the University of Colorado.

"Bergy bit" in Ross Sea	Seals as viewed from helicopter	Ice Chunks in the Ross Sea
Image of the Transantarctic Mountains taken from a plane. Picture is of the top side of Minna Bluff. Mt. Discovery is in the background, in the upper right.	Penguins at Cape Bird	Crack in the Ross Ice Shelf
Black Island	Image of the Ross Sea Coast. Helicopter landed a large distance away from the AWS.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants Nos. OPP-0537827, OPP-0338147, and OPP-0230028. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.