Will any of NASA's rubber ducks make it in to Baffin Bay before August 1st, 2009?
Sadly, there has been no news on this front. There were some ducks found in Australia earlier this year, but not sure if they were the ones in question... in any case they definitely didn't make it to Baffin Bay. Too bad, because that's just a fantastic photo-op waiting to happen.
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When a sophisticated science probe failed to return any data about whether pools of melted glacial ice were showing up in the ocean, a NASA researcher turned to a decidedly low-tech solution: a brigade of rubber ducks.
Robotics expert Alberto Behar, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wants to figure out if water shooting through tunnels in Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier makes it into Baffin Bay.
He labeled 90 rubber ducks with an e-mail address and the words "science experiment" and "reward" written in English, Danish and the native Inuit language, then set the toys loose in a moulin.
The idea was that fisherman would find the ducks and notify Behar where they were found.
He's still waiting for first contact.
Baffin Bay, an ice-laden body of water between northeast Canada and Greenland, freezes over in the winter, so Martin is hoping the ducks might be located next summer.
NASA Dispatches Rubber Ducks for Science
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: I can't find any updates on this story nor any reports of any of the poor rubber duckies being found.
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jenniandboys: Sadly, there has been no news on this front. There were some ducks found in Australia earlier this year, but not sure if they were the ones in question... in any case they definitely didn't make it to Baffin Bay. Too bad, because that's just a fantastic photo-op waiting to happen. 
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I am betting no, but I hope I am wrong.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/nasa-loses-90-rubber-ducks-in-arctic-offers-reward.php
they are offering a 100 dollar per duckie reward!
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