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Large -- Medium Alex and Ralph are setting up Ralph's time-lapse camera to watch ripples move at our first stop. |
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Large -- Medium Looking at the dune crests to the north. |
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Large -- Medium Jani and her students start up the side of the dune with that big orange box, which contains a ground-penetrating RADAR. |
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Large -- Medium Alex, just below the crest. |
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Large -- Medium It's sheer brute force lugging the thing up the crazy dune. |
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Large -- Medium Almost there . . . |
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Large -- Medium Made it to the top! |
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Large -- Medium Ralph breaks out the Kite-cam. |
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Large -- Medium Kite partway up. |
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Large -- Medium Alex, through saltating sand. |
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Large -- Medium Kite reaches the level of the dunetop where I'm sitting. |
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Large -- Medium Kitemaster Ralph. |
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Large -- Medium Looking down the farside of the dune, with the ground-penetrating RADAR crew at the way distance. |
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Large -- Medium Beautiful patterns of sand blowing in a thin layer above the dune. |
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Large -- Medium Megapanorama. |
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Large -- Medium GPR crew trudging back, now. |
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Large -- Medium Jani & Titus. |
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Large -- Medium Very thin line of magnetite grains indicates where the dunecrest was probably overnight. |
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Large -- Medium Okay, now I'm trudging down into the interdune on the far side from the car. |
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Large -- Medium A lot of gravel in the interdunes, and not a lot of loose sand. |
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Large -- Medium Digging underneath for a sample. |
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Large -- Medium Ralph and Alex, in a ripple sea |
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Large -- Medium Back along my path. |
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Large -- Medium Driving back after day 1 along the interdunes. |
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Large -- Medium Approaching the research station after day 1. |