About the North Pole Web Cam Images in 2007
Web Cams 1 and 2 were deployed in April as usual, but due to a technical problem, which we were unable to correct remotely, the timer was set for 14 days, so each camera transmitted only one image every two weeks.
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Most images from Web Cams #3 and #4 are from the transit on the R/V Polarstern, and not from the North Pole. |
Web Cam 3 was transported northward on the R/V Polarstern as a replacement for a webcam that failed during deployment in April. Most of the photos from Web Cam 3 are from the transit on the Polarstern, and the open water you see is NOT at the North Pole. Web Cam 3 was deployed on September 13, 2007, as close as the Pole as the Polarstern could come. Only a day later, on September 14, the mount fell over, and from that time until winter freeze, the camera pointed only at the sky. New - see YouTube video Voyage to the North Pole on an Icebreaker (summer 2007)
Web Cam 4 was transported northward on the Polarstern with Web Cam 3, but never reached the North Pole and was never deployed. All images from Web Cam 4 are of the water through which the Polarstern transited.
View animations from 2007 web cams: 1, 2; also see animations from the R/V Polarstern: 3, 3 large, 4, 4 largeand YouTube. For more information about the web cams, what you see in the images, please see General Information about the North Pole Images and the North Pole environment.
A log of the R/V Polarstern voyage is at http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/ships/polarstern/weekly_reports/all_expeditions/ark_xxii/ark_xxii2/
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Web cam Home and Acknowledgments |
Daylight and Darkness at the North Pole | |
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The North Pole Web Cam is part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, a joint National Science Foundation-sponsored effort by the Polar Science Center, / APL / UW, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / NOAA, the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Oregon State University, and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. | ![]() |