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Truck buried in snow.
Date Taken:
October 24, 2012
Photograph By:
Eli Duke
License Type:
Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

A snow cat tractor is buried in snow at the Siple Dome field camp in West Antarctica, located about 500 miles from McMurdo Station. The camp is named after Paul Siple, the first science leader at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during 1956-57 for the International Geophysical Year, and the high plateau or dome where it is located. Once the site of a major ice core drilling project, it is now a deep field camp with a skiway that serves as an emergency landing strip for planes.

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