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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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Updating the recording charts with time/date marks

Updating the recording charts with time/date marks.

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The Instrument Control and Data Acquisition System (ICDAS)

The Instrument Control and Data Acquisition System (ICDAS).

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The Carbon Dioxide monitoring instrument panel

The Carbon Dioxide monitoring instrument panel.

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The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in winter

The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in...

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The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in winter

The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in...

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The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in winter

The Mauna Kea astronomical observatories as seen from the air in...

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A pahoehoe lava flow on the slope of Mauna Loa

A pahoehoe lava flow on the slope of Mauna Loa.

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A lava formation at the entrance to a lava tube

A lava formation at the entrance to a lava tube.

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