July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... is where directionality of the antennas comes into play. What sounds perfectly straight forward in normal conditions is not... in Antarctica The full ARIANNA will have up- and downward-pointing antennas at every station, which will allow for...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
.... A variety of herbs (e.g. basil, parsley, dill) will complement the crew’s diet. Strawberry seedlings will also be taken to Antarctica to produce fruits inside the FEG. Strawberries are known to have high psychological benefits to isolated crews and...
12 July 2017
MODIS satellite confirms massive ice shelf rift
... has broken away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument...warming climate on the Larsen C ice shelf in West Antarctica for many years. “We have been anticipating this event...
March 2017
Space is open for business
...top climate technologies at the latest UN climate change conference. It was developed for the remote station Concordia in Antarctica and it is being used right now in Morocco. Rob Suters, managing director of IPStar BV, maintained that the challenges...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...astronauts on long missions healthy and able to undertake exploration on the Martian surface The station at Concordia in Antarctica is the closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration. ESA is studying the effects of isolation there to prepare...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... changes in thickness of ice floating in the oceans and the ice sheet thickness that blankets Greenland and Antarctica. When combined with other satellite data, analyses showing how the volume of Earth’s ice is changing leads...
