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Paolo Pellegrin joined NASA to document the changing Antarctic in November 2017. He shot the pictures from a helicopter, mostly with no visible horizon. This method produced a set of images that are both graphic and spectral, as well as offering an illusion of an unknowable, untouchable force. But beyond the abstract, the photos also convey specifics; a calved iceberg flowing through frozen seawater known as pancake ice, a crevasse measuring a few thousand feet or a 100-ft.-tall iceberg floating in the open sea. This project is therefore as much a document of proof as it is a visual wonder.