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Arrival of the RRS Ernest Shackleton near Halley Research Station in Antarctica. The Shackleton is the regular...
Getting ready to lay out a BARREL balloon to prepare for inflation. The helium stillages used to fill the balloon...
BARREL researchers get ready to release the top part of the balloon, called the bubble, as it fills with enough...
A team member from South African research station, SANAE IV, helps unwrap the balloon from its protective yellow...
The BARREL team at the South African research station, SANAE IV, poses next to the instrument box, which will float...
A crane lowers two BARREL balloon payloads onto the platform at Halley Research Station in Antarctica. Credit: NASA...
The BARREL team at the SANAE IV research station celebrates their final launch in the Antarctica sun. Credit: NASA...
BARREL team members lift up the instrument box below an inflated BARREL balloon to help with launch. Credit:...
Recovery of a BARREL balloon payload after its flight. The recovery was carried out by helicopter. This area is...
Release of a BARREL balloon. The launch crew can be seen on the right holding the payload as the top of the balloon...
An emperor penguin waddles away on Christmas morning in Antarctica. On Christmas day, the BARREL team visited a...
The BARREL team at the South African research station, SANAE IV, lay out the 130-foot-long balloon on the ground to...
BARREL team members run under the payload as the balloon first takes flight at the SANAE IV research station in...
A view looking over the payload – the instruments that fly under a balloon – while the BARREL balloon inflates. The...
Watching a BARREL balloon – and the instruments dangling below – float up over the SANAE IV research base in...
An iceberg as viewed from the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton a few days before the BARREL team reached Halley...
While large compared to a human, BARREL balloons are actually much smaller than typical science balloons, which can...
A BARREL balloon launches up into the sky, destined to float on the circumpolar winds around the South Pole for up...
The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS) instrument is installed in the B-2 vacuum chamber for a...
This view of the Earth shows a wonderfully unique but physically impossible view of the southern hemisphere and...
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves melting of the shelves from underneath overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of...
The SeaWinds instrument on NASA Quick Scatterometer QuikScat spacecraft captured these near-real-time backscatter...
NASA Terra spacecraft imaged Iceberg B-15A, the largest iceberg in the world measuring about 11,000 square...
This photo, taken onboard the Chilean Navy P3 aircraft, shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf, West Antarctica,...