April 19, 2024
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Beast of Burden

During the 2010-11 field season, personnel at the South Pole Station used a series of small explosions to collapse several old buildings, which had been buried under the ice but that had become a hazard to surface travel. Was it now safe to travel over an area known as Old Pole? The U.S. Antarctic Program enlisted Yeti the robot to find out.

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