By YUMI NAKAYAMA/ Staff Writer
February 6, 2021 at 07:00 JST
In the summer in Antarctica, expedition team members fly around the coastal areas of the continent in a helicopter assigned to the Shirase. Motoshige Date and another member read the thermometer to collect data in Skarvsnes, Antarctica, on Jan. 3. (Yumi Nakayama)
ANTARCTIC OCEAN--As penguins gave curious looks, the icebreaker Shirase started its potentially perilous journey back to Japan, its first nonstop voyage designed to prevent novel coronavirus infections. [Read More]
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