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The dry valleys of Antarctica rarely get rain.  They're not covered with ice, like most of the rest of the continent.  The valleys are desolate and remote, and rarely seen by human eyes.

Over the last month, a team of researches from the University of Minnesota's Antarctic Geospatial Information Center and the Science Museum of Minnesota brought space-age technology to the valleys in an attempt to create accurate maps of one of the planet's last frontiers.


The Science Museum's Patrick Hamilton called MPR regularly from inside the dry valleys and left a series of "postcards".  Some of his observations will air on MPR's All Things Considered this week.

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Slideshow: Postcards from Antarctica

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A team from the Twin Cities spent January mapping one of the planet's last frontiers:  the dry valleys of Antarctica.

Patrick Hamilton from the Science Museum of Minnesota was part of a team mapping the dry valleys of Antarctica.

Postcards from Antarctica

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