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  • Punta Arenas, Chile, is where Operation Ice Bridge's Antarctic campaign is based.

    Punta Arenas, Chile

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  • Off the east coast of New Zealand, cold rivers of water that have branched off from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow north past the South Island and converge with warmer waters flowing south past the North Island.

    Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters

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  • An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica on Wednesday, Oct., 21, 2009.

    Operation Ice Bridge Studies Antarctic Sea Ice

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  • Sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea in West Antarctica.

    Sea Ice from 2,000 Feet

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  • The Transantarctic Mountain Range

    Transantarctic Mountain Range

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  • NASA's DC-8 after its return to Punta Arenas, Chile.

    DC-8 Returns to Punta Arenas

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  • Crew and researchers gathered in front of the DC-8 before an early morning flight on Oct. 24, to measure sea ice in the Weddell Sea.

    Crew & Researchers in Front of the DC-8

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  • TRMM Precipitation Analysis showed Mirinae's rainfall from Oct. 26-Nov. 2 from the Philippines to landfall in Vietnam.

    Typhoon Mirinae (Western Pacific)

  • Break away ice adrift in Pine Island Bay.

    Icebergs in Pine Island Bay

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  • The DC-8 makes a turn over Pine Island Bay

    Pine Island Bay

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