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Near the North Pole

Caption: Jessica Green, right, works with Lise Ovreas, a scientist with the University of Bergen (Norway) Center for Geobiology, to obtain microbes at Svalbard, an island in a Norway-controlled archipelago about 300 miles south of the North Pole.

Credit: Photo by Steve Coulson

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