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The "backlit snow pit" offers a way for scientists to look at snow events through the past. Two pits are dug with a thin wall left in between. Sunlight shines in one side and an observer on the other side is treated with a view into the past! Runway Snow Pit, Summit Camp, Greenland.

Credit to read: Photo by Bonnie Reicherdt, Courtesy of Craig Beals (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Craig Beals
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Year: 
2008
Program: 
PolarTREC
Region: 
Greenland
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6.3mm
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2325361
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image/jpeg
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f/3.3
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2112
Width: 
2816
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PENTAX Corporation
Model: 
PENTAX Optio WPi
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1/40s
ISO: 
160

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