Gallery: The Remote Frozen Islands Where Science Is King

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    Miss Piggy Ny-Alesund

    A scientist at the AWIPEV Arctic research base in Ny-Alesund checks an orange meteorological balloon nicknamed "Miss Piggy."
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    Walking slowly to the Snowmobile-Niels Stomps

    Scientists bundled in white snowsuits as they walk to their snowmobile.
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    Dome23 at Isfjorden, Svalbard

    A radar dome owned by NASA in Isfjorden, the second longest fjord in Svalbard.
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    Coal layer of five feet Niels Stomps

    A man wearing a hard hat explores the Lunckefjell coal mine in Van Mijenfjord, Svalbard.
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    Mining Building-Svalbard -Niels Stomps

    A mining building.
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    Leif Magne Helgesen is the world’s northernmost priest

    Leif Magne Helgesen is the priest at Svalbard Church in Longyearben. It's the northernmost church in the world.
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    Eiscat radio telescope

    A radio telescope operated by EISCAT (the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association).
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    Global Seed entrance-Niels Stomps

    The entrance to the Global Seed Vault near Longyearben.
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    Antenna Field, Svalbard-Niels Stomps

    The Sousy Svalbard Radar is an antenna field in Adventdalen, just outside of Longyearben. Its 365 antennas monitor the troposphere and mesosphere.
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    Students dig research pits in the snow in Bolterdalen.
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    Drilling for samples 32-niels Stomps

    A site where marine biologists drilled for ice samples in Ny-Alesund.
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    Radar dome at Isfjorden, Svalbard-Niels Stomps

    A radar dome at Isfjorden, Svalbard.
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    Mesurements Niels Stomps Spistbergen

    Snow measurements in Longyearben.
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    Instuments-Niels Stomps

    An instrument from the Kjell Henriksen Observatory sits on the Breinosa mountain outside Longyearben.
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    Everyday Digging Niels Stomps

    A biologist searches for traces of nitrogen oxides in the snow in Ny Alesund.
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