GEOMAG observatory gets instruments and Toyota Hiluxes see more action
Here are some photos of the GEOMAG observatory as the first instruments are set up in the shelter built to house them more than half a kilometre away from the station. Also for your viewing pleasure are more photos of the modified Toyota Hiluxes in action in Antarctica, and some great photos of the station under that magical mid-February light you see in the Dronning Maud Land.
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With only a month before the end of the austral summer, the sun moves lower and lower over the horizon with each passing day, and the sky takes on a purple hue.
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica perched on the ridge with the satellite communication dish - which communicates scientific data to scientists in Belgium!
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The GEOMAG observatory the station team assembled this past season. Now it's time to install some instruments!
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Running a cable to the GEOMAG observatory to provide it with power.
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Using a nonmagnetic theodolite on one of the four pillars inside the GEOMAG shelter to measure Earth's geomagnetic field.
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
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A variometer (an instrument that measures fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field) on one of the four pillars inside the GEOMAG shelter.
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
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The station from a distance. One never tires of this magical scenery!
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
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One of the modified Toyota Hiluxes at Vesthaugen Nunatak. The mountains in the distance are 30 km away.
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The Toyota Hiluxes sure are useful for checking remote scientific instruments in this kind of mountainous terrain!
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
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The Toyota Hilux are able to handle the rough terrain of sastrugi (undulations in the hard snow surface).
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Arriving back at the station after a mission in the field in one of the Toyota Hiluxes.
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Some of us in the team have spent more than three years of our life in total at this station. We love this place!
© International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert
