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Scientists blog about their extended voyage off the Antarctic coast as part of a mission to study carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere.

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NASA's Dr. Bob Bindschadler describes his experiences on a field mission to Antarctica in a journal hosted by Discovery.com.

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    Scientists to Search Antarctica for Extreme Organisms

    The Tawani 2008 International Antarctica Expedition Team

    Image above: The Tawani 2008 International Antarctica Expedition Team, at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. (Standing, from left: Jim Pritzker, Dale Andersen, Art Mortvedt and Richard Hoover; kneeling: Valery Galchenko) Credit: M. Kress, Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation, Inc.

    NASA's Richard Hoover is leading a team of explorers and scientists to a remote location in Antarctica to search for unique microorganisms. Hoover hopes to find new species of "extremophiles," hardy life forms that exist and flourish in conditions hostile to most known organisms.

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