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Paths Less Taken

Scientists, sailors, pilots, divers, and other members of the NOAA family and its predecessor agencies have worked on every continent and in every climate that exists on Earth.

This collection records but a small fraction of that experience but will take you from Arctic regions to the South Pole, island-hopping from tropics to polar regions, and from the stratosphere to the bottom of the sea.

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Boats anchored offshore from Pinnacle Rock
Islands in the Sun
Measuring a Planet - Satellite Triangulation
Emperor penguin colony at Cape Washington in the Ross Sea
The Antarctic
Harley Nygren dressed in the latest Arctic style
The Arctic Field Party (1949-1951)
The bow of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR
The Northern Seas, Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

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A view of snow-capped Mauna Kea as seen over an aa lava flow from Mauna Loa

A view of snow-capped Mauna Kea as seen over an aa lava flow from...

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Photo #1 of sequence

Photo #1 of sequence. A view of snow-capped Mauna Kea as seen...

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Photo #2 of sequence

Photo #2 of sequence. The same view of Mauna Kea but panning to...

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The Mauna Loa Observatory

The Mauna Loa Observatory.

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The Mauna Loa Observatory with view of the dome housing Dobson ozone spectrophotometer and air intake tower for atmospheric constituent measurements

The Mauna Loa Observatory with view of the dome housing Dobson...

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Instruments on the tower at the Mauna Loa Observatory

Instruments on the tower at the Mauna Loa Observatory.

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The Mauna Loa Observatory with view of the dome housing Dobson ozone spectrophotometer and air intake tower for atmospheric constituent measurements

The Mauna Loa Observatory with view of the dome housing Dobson...

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The NASA Solar Observatory, up the hill from the NOAA facility

The NASA Solar Observatory, up the hill from the NOAA facility.

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