47 Scenes from Antarctica

Winter is coming back to Antarctica and, after a busy season for both scientists and tourists, most researchers stationed there have traveled north for the season. Among them were a Russian team that recently came within 30 meters of drilling into Lake Vostok — a subglacial lake some 4,000 meters below the surface of the ice — and the crew of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, who have been burying a massive array of detectors deep in the ice. (They placed their final detector in December.)

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Gathered here are recent images of Antarctica, its environment, and some of the scientific work taking place there.

A sexy, icy gallery courtesy of The Atlantic.

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