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Scientists will go to the ends of the earth for data. They will drop themselves on a featureless ice sheet to measure a temperature or float down a mosquito-infested river for a few tablespoons of water. Seattle-based photographer Chris Linder follows them and uses his camera to bring science’s epic voyages to the public eye. Glaciologist Sarah Das traces water flow in Greenland using a harmless, degradable rhodamine dye. Image courtesy of Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Although the landscapes of Antarctica or Iceland are striking and spectacular, Linder says “beauty shots” are only part of …