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Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station watch the aurora borealis light up the night sky over a temporary base camp set up on Arctic Ocean ice near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, March 21, 2009.

Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station watch the aurora borealis light up the night sky over a temporary base camp set up on Arctic Ocean ice near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, March 21, 2009.

Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station watch the aurora borealis light up the night sky over a temporary base camp set up on Arctic Ocean ice near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, March 21, 2009.

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