NASA's Terra satellite caught this true - color
picture on January 24 in a moment
of clear weather between two major
snowstorms that hit North America's eastern coast.
Laboratory science has its usual pitfalls, and now add these: low temperature and high wind, reagents that never made it to Antarctica, unpredictable weather conditions that delay or cut short trips to your test site because it's dangerous to fly a helicopter in a
snowstorm, Weddell seals that won't let you fish in your fishing hole, the unavoidable distraction presented by a troop
of curious penguins, and... well, you get the
picture.