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Dispatches from a KU trip to the Antarctic

KU's Jill Hummels will blog about her trip to Argentina and on to Antarctica with a group of KU researchers and other scientists from around the country and they do research during Antarctica's brief "summer" months.

October 22, 2009

Sea ice focus of Wednesday's Antarctica flight

Wednesday’s mission was a chance for the University of Kansas’ SNOW and Ku-Band radars to shine. NASA’s Operation Ice Bridge leaders took advantage of favorable weather patterns and made the rapidly disappearing sea ice the target of the day.

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October 21, 2009

KU engineers excited by preliminary results from Antarctic flight

Tuesday's high-altitude flight took NASA's Operation Ice Bridge researchers over the Pine Island region (75&deg 25' S and 98&deg 25' W and surrounding area) of Antarctica.

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October 19, 2009

Weather keeps KU researchers from completing research flight to Antarctica

What they say of Kansas is true of Punta Arenas, Chile. If you don’t like the weather, stick around 10 minutes. NASA Operation Ice Bridge flight for Monday, Oct. 19, was scrubbed due to the weather.

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