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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica – Final System Tests And Completion Of Preparations For Drilling – Part 4

Soon it will be time for the big test of our TRIPLE-IceCraft probe, which is to melt its way through the almost 100-metre-thick ice shelf north of Neumayer Station III. […]

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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 3

The seventh day of our Antarctic expedition to test the TRIPLE-IceCraft melting probe begins for me and all the new arrivals in our segregated living area: our joint COVID-19 test […]

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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 2

At the time of our arrival at Neumayer Station III. Technically it is morning, but the long journey has messed up my internal clock.

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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 1

Some regions on Earth are as mysterious as distant celestial bodies – but equally explored. These include subglacial lakes in Antarctica. These lakes lie under a permanent layer of ice, […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 December 2022: Back at the ALCI Ice Runway and Airbase Facility

Keith, Over the last three days we pulled down the camp and completed a few last minute science chores before returning to the ALCI airbase facility.

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 8 December 2022: Traversing An Icy Ocean World And Thinking About Avatar 2

Keith The other day when Miles and I were using the Trimble GNSS equipment in the Aurkjosen Cirque area.

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 6 December 2022: A Very Busy Week At Lake Untersee

Keith, We have been fairly busy the last week or so and our weather has been for the most part fairly good. That said, we have 45 knot winds today […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 22 November 2022: Aurkjosen Cirque

Keith, Denis and Andre just returned from a hike to the moraine located several hundred meters above the Aurkjosen Cirque, having redeployed the temperature loggers used to monitor temperature and […]

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