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Polar research: Six priorities for Antarctic science Nature, 2014 (Ref: 17057)
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Antarctica. The word conjures up images of mountains draped with glaciers, ferocious seas dotted with icebergs and iconic species found nowhere else. The continent includes about one-tenth of the planet's land surface, nearly 90% of Earth's ice and about 70% of its fresh water.

Concept for a second Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Antarctica. SPIE. Proc 2nd Backasog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Backasog Castle, Sweden, 9-11 September 2003., 2004 (Ref: 11898)
Category 3: Conference paper

While definitive winter measurements for Dome C must await until 2004, on the basis of existing data the Antarctic … Dome sites promise the best conditions on the Earth for many astronomical observations. Because atmospheric … turbulence is largely confined to a ~ 100 m ground layer…

How can we understand the Antarctic atmosphere? Proceedings of the Optical Turbulence Characterization for Astronomical Applications:, 2009 (Ref: 14019)
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The Antarctic Plateau offers many benefits to astronomers, including dark and … transparent infrared skies, long periods of uninterrupted observations, and very low levels … of atmospheric turbulence. Efforts to quantify these benefits are ongoing.

Infrared and sub-millimetre observing conditions on the Antarctic plateau Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2000 (Ref: 9616)
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The Antarctic plateau provides the best terrestrial sites for infrared and sub-millimetre astronomy. In this paper we examine the relative importance of temperature…

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