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"It's such a neat thing, " she said, referring to the past ties between the West Texas desert and Antarctica's glaciers.

If you were a microorganism in one of Antarctica's dry valleys, where would you hide to escape the biting, arid wind?

This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Google announced Antarctica's addition to Streetview at the same time it said the service was available in Ireland and Brazil.

The Pine Island Glacier flows out of Antarctica's Hudson Mountains and floats over the ocean.

Captain Scott and three of his companions prepare to explore Antarctica's Western Mountains in a September 15, 1911, photograph.

The finding suggests that Antarctica's snowfall is not slowing the sea level rise caused by global warming, as most climate models predict.

Animals along the coast of the Southern Ocean don't mind the cold weather, and thrive in Antarctica's seas.

Pine Island Glacier is rapidly retreating, accounting for a large part of West Antarctica's ice loss.

Today, the 20-mile-wide Mertz Glacier is one of Antarctica's great ice streams, draining the ice from this part of East Antarctica.

Blood Falls, a small, saltwater outflow from Taylor Glacier's subglacial lake in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, offers an alternative.

A stark white lobe of a glacier advances across Antarctica's dry valleys region, so called because of its scarcity of snow.

Scientists believe that tiny ice crystals of nitric acid in Antarctica's upper atmosphere are directly involved.

Antarctica's faithful Huskies get their due on this magnificent $1 Proof struck in a full ounce of . 999 fine silver.

Tiny marine snails known as sea butterflies take many forms, including heart-shaped, such as this species in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Several huge icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf in 2000 and are now drifting away from Antarctica.

Here Antarctica's endemic plants dwell: lichens, terrestrial algae, and mosses.

Encircled by icy winds, the compacted snow of Antarctica's deep interior is actually growing in volume.

Atmospheric Remnants of Nuclear Tests Reveal Antarctica's Tiny "Old-Growth Forests"

Darkness in Antarctica's Weddell Sea gives this comb jelly a chance to show off its candy - colored bioluminescent cells.

But they indicate that Antarctica's climate may have undergone rapid shifts during past periods of high CO2.

A hanging glacier throws off an avalanche of snow in Antarctica's South Georgia Island.

Cape Royds, which is part of Ross Island in Antarctica's Ross Sea, is home to the southernmost penguin colony in the world.

It wasn't until around 34 million years ago that the first small glaciers formed on the tops of Antarctica's mountains.

was Mount Erebus, Antarctica's most active volcano.

Antarctica's seas are full of life. There are many kinds of fishes, water birds, seals and whales.

When Roald Amundsen set up his base camp in Antarctica's Bay of Whales in January 1911, he was 38 years old and a seasoned polar veteran.

Proposed New Standards for the Exploration of Antarctica's Subglacial lakes

Greenland's or Antarctica's melting glaciers