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ESA keeps vigil on the Antarctic ice pack
 
16 July 2002

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Halley Base perched on an ice shelf on the edge of Coats Land on the eastern shore of the Weddell Sea (75°35’S 26°34’W)
 
 
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German ice-breaker RV Polarstern photographed after resupply of the German Neumeyer Base in the eastern Weddell sea in winter 1992 (courtesy Mark Drinkwater, ESA)
 
 
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Scatterometer images comparing summer pack-ice conditions in early February 2001 and 2002. Colours indicate the lcoation of sea ice, and wind rows indicate the wind speed and direction at the surface.

Credits: CERSAT, IFREMER
 
 
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