In Photos: A Virtual Voyage to Antarctica

Sunrise at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.The building in the distance is the IceCube neutrino telescope.

Luis Gonzalez / National Science Foundation

This is what Antarctica looks like. Flat, white, and covered with sastrugi (concrete-hard snow drifts) for thousands of miles in every direction. This photo was taken on the polar plateau at an elevation of almost two miles above sea level.

Kelly Brunt / National Science Foundation