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Sarah Diers: "The pond is deeper, the snow melting, and the sediment on the glacier very visible." Cotton Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.

Credit to read: Photo by Mike San Clements, Courtesy of Sarah Diers (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Sarah Diers

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PolarTREC 2009 Sarah Diers

URL: http://www.arcus.org/

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antarctic

land

Year:

2009

Program:

PolarTREC

Region:

McMurdo Dry Valleys

Topic:

Glaciology

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6.2mm

File Size:

6476710

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image/jpeg

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f/8.0

Height:

2448

Width:

3264

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Canon

Model:

Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS

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1/640s

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