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    This self-portrait depicts Wu standing before one of the domes at the Svalbard Satellite Station. A fogbow arcs above the dome, and Wu's headlamp casts an eerie pink light on the ground.
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    A fogbow appears above the road on the way to the Svalbard Satellite Station. The station sits above the Arctic Circle at 78 degrees north.
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    Golden light bathes the snow-capped mountains surrounding the Svalbard Satellite Station.
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    When Wu visited Svalbard in October, the sun moved in a shallow arc, kissing the horizon most of the day.
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    The city of Longyearbyen glows in the distance. The structures at right are supports for cable cars once used to transport coal.
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    The Global Seed Vault is a seed bank on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
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    The Svalbard Satellite Station sits on Plataberget, a mountain plateau outside Longyearbyen.
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    A pink cloud floats like cotton candy in the sky above Spitsbergen, the largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard.
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    Wu shot inside the radomes with gelled lights to add an element of drama. Inside, the domes were empty and cold, filled with melted snow. "You speak and the sound just booms around you," Wu says.
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    The radomes are based on the geodesic design of architect Buckminster Fuller.
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    The sun bathes the landscape in a warm glow.
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    The Northern Lights shine above SG-22, one of two domes that help track the JPSS-1satellite. Wu took this image as part of a timelapse, and he appears in the image standing with his guides beside the dome.
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    The rising moon mirrors the shape of the domes.
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    Wu captured this self-portrait inside one of the domes. The ladder is used for maintenance.
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