Middle school students take photos in front of China's Antarctic exploration vessel "Snow Dragon," at Kaohsiung Port in southeast China's Taiwan Province, April 3, 2009. The vessel opened to the public on April 2 and 3, after it arrived at Kaohsiung on April 1 at the invitation of the "National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium," the "National Sun Yat-sen University" and the Cheng Shiu University for cross-Strait polar research exchanges. [Yu Fuqing/Xinhua]