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Narrator: NASA is an agency of explorers.

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It looks out into space. It looks back at Earth.

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What do penguins have to do with it? Nothing. Nothing at all.

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Which is precisely why NASA takes them so seriously. 

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Here on Operation IceBridge, researchers us a modified

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DC-8 to fly low and slow over wide expanses of Antarctic

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geography including the coasts.

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The goal is to gather data about changing conditions over time. But while

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ice research at the bottom of the world requires pluck and fortitude for human

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travelers, it's home to these guys. And they're all over the place

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at the water's edge. Big airplanes like this one can cause a 

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ruckus in a rookery. And as far as NASA's concerned, that's 

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just not cricket. So mission planners take penguin habitats

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into account when they design flight plans.

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Routes are carefully considered ensuring the plane either steers around penguin

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habitats, or passes high overhead so as not to bother anyone.

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So yeah, penguins and NASA. They do share

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a few things after all. They share the same atmosphere, the same 

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sun, the same solar system. And more.

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That's when we visit there turf, we try to tread lightly. [clapping sound]

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Ok we're done. Do you want to go get something to eat?

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You feel like fish? I could do fish? 

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