Under the Polar View initiative, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have been providing snow melt maps for Norway and Sweden, as well as snow cover maps for Eurasia, for the last 18 months.

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The ICR partnered with Polar View in a trial of the maps to examine how satellite observations could help by gathering information on snow change in a timely manner for such vast circumpolar regions.

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Using satellite-based snow melt maps supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA) backed program Polar View, herders are able to view the depth of snow and judge where the best foraging spots are to take their reindeer.

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Ironically, the best answer is probably to take a view that is the polar opposite.

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The Mars Global Surveyor is currently in a polar orbit, giving its onboard camera a good view as the frost sublimed.

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To get a view on global temperatures that long ago, the researchers studied 73 sediment and polar ice samples, taken from all over the globe.

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Ben Pullar, who is autistic and has bi-polar disorder, had two teeth knocked out when he was a patient, then aged 18, at Winterbourne View.

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Mr Pullar is autistic and bi-polar, with severe learning difficulties, and when he was 18, he spent almost a year at Winterbourne View from July 2009.

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